R.N. Karla Dozzi returns from the first AMDA emergency medical team which arrived in Haiti some 5 days after the disaster. Excellently coordinated by the Quebec organization CECI the team worked at St Marc assisting with the high level or orthopaedic injury. Cases included multiple crush and fracture injuries, both open and closed. Infection posed a very great problem and Karla was kept busy with a considerable amount of wound dressing. The teams work work paved the way for a follow up team make up both of surgeons and nurses from Canada and Columbia Karla is from Sudbury Ontario and currently works in Toronto. Karla returned home shocked and saddened by the extend and severity of the cases she saw
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