The Haitian connection.
Haiti is a land of overwhelming poverty, lacking in resources and struggling with underdeveloped health care. Social and health care problems contribute to produce a high infant mortality and infectious disease rate. Trauma care is mostly nonexistent although injury is common. Experiences encountered while working with the local population in Haiti are described.
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OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois, USA.
D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006205:Haiti; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000628:therapy*; D012066:Relief Work; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology