tent babies

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http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/29/2381084/haiti-quake-creates-new-crisis.html


Haiti quake creates new crisis among women, girls

Haiti’s killer quake has given birth to tent babies, a new crisis that worries health and human rights officials.


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“The camps are not an appropriate place for delivery and not for a newborn,” said Olivia Gayraud, health and nutrition manager for Save the Children’s Port-au-Prince field office, which works with pregnant women in five camps. “You have wind, rain, mosquitoes and cholera. The conditions of the life of these families with newborns are very difficult. It can be a disaster.”

Even before Haiti’s killer January 2010 earthquake, more women died before, during and after childbirth — and more babies died before their fifth birthday — than anywhere in the Americas.

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Haiti’s tent baby phenomenon comes as the country continues to struggle to rebuild, and as the nearly 600,000 Haitians still living in hundreds of squalid camps in quake-ravaged communities see the avalanche of medical assistance from foreign doctors and nongovernmental organizations disappear.

“We have NGOs telling us, we are packing up and leaving at the end of this month,” said Emmanuelle Schneider, spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, who blames a lack of funding for the departures. “Of the $300 million consolidated appeal the U.N. system is requesting to cover humanitarian needs, only 52 percent has been funded.”

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if only they were white

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. If only. :^(

[LynneSin]

2. One of the best things the could do in Haiti is to move their capital city

Port-au-Prince is right on top of that fault line. I know there has been a ton of debate about moving it so it would minimize the damage from future earthquakes.



You can see that Port-Au-Prince is right on the fault line. Since most of the city needs to be rebuilt - why not move it to a location that's 40-50 miles from a fault line but still on the coast.

[jwirr]

3. That sounds reasonable and it could be done if they encouraged

it by helping the people who are willing to move first. Seems to me that they should build a maternity hospital in the place they want them to move first. Get the services going in that area. Make it a planned city as much as possible.

[LynneSin]

4. And a major port and airport

People will only move to the new capital of jobs are found there.

Brazil managed to do it very successfully when they moved their capital from Rio to Brasillia back a few decades ago.