Haiti Bad fto worse

[Mr.Fitnah]

Amid the mass of aid agencies piling in to help Haiti quake victims is a batch of Church of Scientology "volunteer ministers", claiming to use the power of touch to reconnect nervous systems.
Clad in yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the controversial US-based group, smiling volunteers fan out among the injured lying under makeshift shelters in the courtyard of Port-au-Prince's General Hospital.


A wealthy private donor provided his airplane to fly in 80 volunteers from Los Angeles, along with 50 Haitian-American-doctors, in a gesture worth 400,000 dollars, said a Parisian volunteer who gave her name as Sylvie.

"We're trained as volunteer ministers, we use a process called 'assist' to follow the nervous system to reconnect the main points, to bring back communication," she said.

Scientologists 'heal' Haiti quake victims using touch

 

[turbotad]

I'm extremely glad Mr. Travolta has a plane and was willing to do this. To my knowledge there have already been 4 jets filled with medical personnel, volunteers and others, funded by the Church of Scientology. Here in DC we're working like CRAZY right now to find doctors and medical personnel to go on the next flight we have ready to go on Monday out of Tampa.

 

[waltky]

Doctors, nurses and maintenance staff on strike...

Pregnant woman dies waiting at hospital
Fri, May 06, 2016 - STAFF STRIKES: Doctors, nurses and maintenance staff have walked off the job at public hospitals to protest scant medical supplies, unsafe work practices and poor pay

A bleeding pregnant woman on Wednesday died at the gates of Haiti’s largest public hospital after failing to get help amid a weeks-old strike by resident doctors, nurses and other staff. Hundreds of people gathered around the woman just outside the General Hospital compound in Port-au-Prince’s crowded downtown. They covered her body in a blanket and carried it to a nearby radio station in an impromptu protest, chanting: “Medicine needs to work!” “This woman came here to get help, but couldn’t find any doctors. That’s not right,” computer technician Jean Michel Tius said as he watched the crowd march away with the corpse.

Public hospitals primarily serve Haiti’s poor and have been crippled by the strike. Doctors, nurses and maintenance staff have walked off the job to protest a chronic dearth of even the most basic medical supplies, dismal pay and unsafe working conditions. People needing medical help are forced to seek care at relatively expensive private hospitals or overcrowded free clinics run by international organizations. Young resident doctors at the Hospital of the State University of Haiti, a teaching hospital, gathered privately in an office during the protest before holding a news conference.

Joseph Herold, a third-year resident in obstetrics and gynecology, said he was deeply saddened by news of the pregnant woman’s death, but he put the blame on the Haitian Ministry of Health. “The state doesn’t give us anything to care for the patients,” he said, adding that even rubber gloves are scarce. Resident physicians at the teaching hospital earn a basic salary of just US$120 a month, Herold said. He said pay has not increased for over 20 years, causing a steady stream of doctors to abandon the public hospital system or seek opportunities abroad.

In a statement, the health ministry’s mediators said the resident doctors are demanding nearly US$1,300 a month. They said they are trying to satisfy demands made by the resident doctors, but they are powerless to address the salary complaints until the next fiscal year begins in October. The walkout at the General Hospital complex started when a resident doctor was apparently punched by an administrator, but it has since broadened to demand better working conditions and pay. Staffers at nine other public hospitals are protesting in solidarity. After Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, a new and improved General Hospital was supposed to be built with money from international donors, but more than six years later it is still not completed.

Pregnant woman dies waiting at hospital - Taipei Times