‘Absolutely overwhelmed’: Haiti hospitals struggle after quake

Many health facilities remain saturated in the worst-hit areas of Haiti as helicopters ferry the injured to Port-au-Prince.

Hospitals in Haiti were overwhelmed on Saturday with people seeking care for broken limbs and other traumatic injuries from the devastating earthquake last weekend that killed more than 2,000 people. “There’s huge need. There’s a huge influx of patients that are coming in. There’s a lot of trauma, limb fractures and traumatic injuries in most of the patients,” said Rawan Hamadeh, a healthcare professional with Project Hope’s emergency response team in the southwestern city of Les Cayes. Patients are being housed outside in tents because the hospital in Les Cayes where she is working was damaged by the earthquake, Hamadeh told Al Jazeera on Friday.