Related: Haiti's Springfield Saviors
"Quake victims doing well after surgery
Five Haitian children being treated at Shriners Hospital for Children are in good condition after being operated on Thursday, hospital administrator Mark Niederpruem said yesterday. They suffered injuries to their lower limbs during the Jan. 12 earthquake, and doctors who brought them to Massachusetts hoped that medical care could prevent the need for amputations. “It looks very positive,’’ said Niederpruem. The five are among eight Haitian children who arrived in Massachusetts Wednesday night. They range in age from about 2 to 15. Information was not available yesterday for one girl being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit of Baystate Medical Center in Springfield and for two children being treated for burns at Shriners Hospital in Boston.
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No real coverage of the failed aid effort in my AmeriKan newspaper anymore, readers.
Make it about 509 including Florida:
"Haitian patients in US wait on status amid uncertainty" by Darryl Fears, Washington Post | February 17, 2010
MIAMI - “Haiti is gone. Haiti is no more,’’ he said, describing the rush of emotion he felt while viewing pictures of the devastation on a news website. In Haiti, he had few employment opportunities even before the Jan. 12 earthquake, and now his mother sleeps outdoors there because their house collapsed.
He is ready to embrace America, a fabled land that people in his Port-au-Prince neighborhood could only talk about.
And that is what it is: a FABLE!
The WORLD is being SOLD a LIE the same as we are, Americans!
In Miami, his life and his limbs were saved by his Haitian-American doctor, Angelo Gousse. Haitian-American workers, of which there are many at Jackson Memorial, often stop by to chat, treating him like family.
Sort of like a little (illegal?) Haiti, huh?
Hell, we let everyone else in and yet turn back their boats?
Southern border open to all sorts of scum and we have to keep the poor, pitiful Haitians out?
What, they don't like CIA, etc, screwing around in their country?
Related: Haiti's Nightmare: the Cocaine Coup and the CIA Connection
The Destabilization of Haiti
Huh. My newspaper never tells me that.
But Junior isn’t part of the American family, and there are questions over whether he should stay here....
Why not?
We insure all the refugees from our rotten wars built on lies, so why not?
Some say Haitians should not have been brought to the United States for treatment, while others say they deserve medical attention but should be flown back as soon as they recover.
(Blog editor doesn't know how to respond to that except say pick a universal health care plan from any country and no problem, right?)
The question - stay or go? - could become a major headache for the Obama administration. Unlike Cubans, Haitian immigrants are often unwelcome in the United States, a double standard with roots in Cold War politics.
Seems to me this issue was skin color and history.
Haitians are dark and were freed slaves who formed their own nation and tossed of the tyranny of France.
Cuba a tool in the Cold War and has supplied plenty of ground-level CIA operatives.
But advocates for the patients point out that Haiti, one of the poorest nations in the world, lacked adequate health care even in the best of times and that the injured who were saved might be sent back to die.
Why was Haiti in such bad shape when so many aid agencies were located there, huh? Sex rings and organ operations?
The number of patients brought to South and Central Florida is about 500....
Hospital officials said charges for the Haiti patients total just under $7.7 million, nearly two-thirds of which has not been covered by insurance or other sources.
Meanwhile, YOU can NOT GET HEALTH CARE, American!
Some victims are babies without parents.
Saved from a worse fate?
And some are fairly well known, like Romel Joseph, an esteemed violinist trained at the Juilliard School, who survived a three-story fall from his New Victorian Music School during the quake.
Oh, I'm tired of having elites shoved up my ***; however, the Globe is only playing to its readership -- which is not supposed to include me!
Their presence in Florida has generated controversy. Two weeks ago, medical airlifts from Haiti were halted when Governor Charlie Crist, Republican of Florida, complained that, while the state was willing to help, the US military was overburdening it with earthquake victims.
Related:
"Governor Charlie Crist of Florida told ABC News’ “Good Morning America’’ yesterday that.... 700 people had come from Haiti to Florida over the past 24 hours, and that the state was still willing to help emergency cases.... “We’re welcoming Haitians with open arms and probably done more than any other state and happy to continue to do so.’’
Oh, yeah, liar!?
"Florida Gov. Charlie Crist wrote a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, warning that "Florida's health care system is quickly reaching saturation"
Okay, then, this agenda-pushing MSM PARAGRAPH is BULLS*** or Crist LIED on NATIONAL TV, take your pick.
