Welcome to Leogane, Haiti

Welcome to Leogane, Haiti

French version:

www.bienvenue-leogane.blogspot.com

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Alec: Orthopaedic surgeon from Switzerland

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mass grave

packing...

geneva airport

santo domingo airfield

destruction

road damages

inpatient units

waiting line

former school, new field hospital...

staff housing

water supplies

bathrooms/showers

power generators

staff sleeping area

sterilization area

scrubbing area

operating table

operating room

operating area

home made traction device

"traction ward"

"Papy Lherisson"

hospitalized child

peridural

skin graft

amputation

cast treatment

traction

wound debridement

successful skin graft

C-section

failed primary closure of amputation

failed initial cast treatment

peripheral nerve block

cast with treatment note on tape

amputation: delayed closure

ex fix: drilling

ex fix: pins placement

ex fix: pins in place

ex fix: reduction

ex fix: clinical result

scalp wounds needing reconstructive surgery

plastic/reconstructive surgery

sliding/rotation flap

result after flap covering

case discussions

"invited" surgeons

amputation

fracture healing with 5 cm shortening

$fracture healing with 5 cm shortening$

femur fracture

$femur fracture$

osteomyelitis

pelvis and acetabular fracture

$pelvis and acetabular fracture$

displaced femur fracture in a child

$displaced femur fracture in a child$

hand surgery

transportation of patient with a traction

maggots in a wound

failed initial treatment

AP view...

lateral view...

lunch break

evening meeting

Our mascot

Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank MSF-Switzerland and everyone I had the privilege to work with in Haiti: my surgeon colleagues : Benjamin (who contributed with pictures to this blog), Amilcar and Hagen. Our internal medicine specialists Joanne, Seth and the whole OPD team.The unstoppable Joe and his OR anesthesiologists. Our Australian scrub-nurses Rachel and Amy, and also Mélanie and Magalie with their Haitian team of nurses. The Leogane logisticians: Mario, Francesco, Etienne, and all the others. This blog is dedicated to you.

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