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Posted on January 13, 2010 | tags

 
 

World: Worse than anyone expected: Port-Au-Prince’s hospitals abandoned

  • Doctors Without borders says ALL hospitals in Haiti’s Port au Prince area have either collapsed or been abandoned.
  • NBC anchor Ann Curry • On the devastated infrastructure of Haiti’s capital and largest city. Haitian authorities say that the quake has destroyed most of the city. Obama has offered significant help to the country, and there will be ways to get that help to Haitians – the airport appears to still be operable. But it appears that the city, ill-prepared for such a quake, is a complete disaster area. source