"The
situation is still bad," said Nau, who is the medical director for an
organization called Healing Hands for Haiti, a nonprofit physical
medicine and rehabilitation institute in Port-au-Prince.
"The rubble is still there," Nau said. "People are still living under tents waiting for shelter."
It
will take decades for Haiti to rebuild and for the emotional scars to
heal, but a technique Nau learned from the Richland-based Surgical
Implant Generation Network, or SIGN, in the past several days will help
some of the physical wounds heal a little faster.
The magnitude-7 quake leveled much of the impoverished Caribbean
nation, killing 230,000 people, injuring 300,000 and leaving 1.5 million
homeless and living in camps.
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Source: The News Tribune | Michelle Dupler
