Each day, we are 12 people cramming into a little minibus that leaves the office/housing base located at Delmas 83 on the edge of Port-au-Prince. Departure time is 7:15 am, an early start to avoid getting stuck in the city’s infamous and stultifying traffic. I’ve joined the medical and surgical team who’ve come to treat emergency trauma patients, injured in Haiti’s January 12 earthquake. They are working at a field hospital that opened January 20 and was established on abandoned tennis courts.
We make our way through a dusty urban landscape radically redefined by the earthquake’s seismic spasms. The landmarks of our daily journey to the hospital reflect the scale of disaster and the start-and-stop pace of recovery: a four story building flattened to resemble a stack of plates; a neighborhood blanketed in the flimsy patchwork of blue and white plastic tarps, and a side street housing a colony of tents, baking under the hot tropical sun. Read More
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