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the emergency aid and search teams getting through faster to the people in Haiti, should be shot!
I just watched those children in hospital in Haiti, babies with arms and legs amputated because help didn't reach them in time - how on earth will they get the right help in a place like Haiti, hard as people will try?
Beautiful children with such pain and suffering in their eyes, who will never know what it's like to even learn to walk normally, or to write and play as they would have without the dreadful loss of the tiny limbs. It's heartbreaking, I can't see the board properly through my tears!
Even the workshop for making prosthetic limbs is in ruins, the man who runs it found a nearly finished leg complete with shoe. He doesn't know if the person it was for is still alive, now his work load will be many times more than usual.
As the reporter said, how will people use crutches in the rough terrain of rubble and chaos, how will they walk on their prosthetic legs if they get them eventually, on the uneven surfaces? What hope for their lives now, when already they had so little?
Amidst it all, one young woman, in her twenties, who lost an arm and a leg, singing and staying positive, how brave she is, and how pathetic it makes us seem who have so much and still think we need more!

Lizx

Didnt see this, but isnt the aid needed that which will rebuild a better place for everyone, not in and out as soon as the emergency is over. What an eyeopener for some of our yobbos if they were forced to go and do some labour there.

Apparently, had the rescuers got in there sooner with the necessary equipment, instead of it getting sent back and forth, more people might have come out without limbs having to be amputated. That's the bit that breaks my heart, so much pain and suffering and many deaths that could have been avoided if rescuers had the right equipment sooner.

Lizx

Doesn't anyone watch the news?