Topic: DART Medical Platoon in Haiti

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For medics in Haiti everything is in short supply — except the wounded
By Jorge Barrera, Canwest News Service
January 17, 2010
http://www.canada.com/news/world/medics+everything+short+supply+except+wounded/2450897/story.html

The injured continued to arrive at the gates to the field hospital Saturday in front of the Laboratoire National de Sante Public in Port Au Prince where Canadian Forces medical personnel tried to mend broken bodies with cardboard.

Facing limited supplies and an endless need, Canadian military personnel were forced to reuse latex gloves and resort to cardboard ripped from supply boxes for splints, said Cpl. Alexander Robitaille, a medic with the Canadian Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART).

“We use what we have. We don’t have a lot of supplies. That is why we use cardboard. It works, it is stable,” said Robitaille, after a day mending bodies. “We just try to use less things ... we are waiting for more (supplies).”

Robitaille said he did not know when additional medical material would arrive.

The team was working out of two field hospital tents with their patients laying on stretchers at one end, and the operating room at the other.

A young girl whose foot was amputated was carried out by her father, and a young woman with an amputated arm was helped through the gates by two women late Saturday afternoon. A baby was also delivered Saturday at the Belgian-run field hospital.

Medical staff often have to turn to amputation because wounds are infected beyond healing, some crawling with maggots, said Robitaille.

“Some people have been caught in the rubble for three four days, so they couldn’t move, they couldn’t do anything to clean it,” he said.

The Belgian doctors perform the amputations.

On Friday, the Canadian medical crew treated 42 patients.

But the mended faced a high chance of aggravating their wounds from infection and failure to take their medication, said Robitaille. Those whose legs are put into cardboard splints often don’t have crutches or wheelchairs to allow for the rest needed to mend broken bones, he said. Many also cannot read and could forget the instructions for their medicine.

Across the street a makeshift city has sprung up and those that live there often go to the field hospital for help.

“It is not really clean there and it has all the things for infections and disease,” said Robitaille, who is on his first deployment and landed Wednesday with the DART reconnaissance team.

“It is a drop in the bucket,” said Master Cpl. Richard Robichaud, also with the medical team. “I would rather have a drop in the bucket, than the bucket empty.”

Robichaud said one man gave them “two thumbs up” after they mended his leg the day before.

Outside the gates Saturday, a crowd of Haitians gathered, some pleading to get in. Others just watched.

Dave Coffie, 12, had been waiting for two days to get into the field hospital for treatment for a broken lower leg, said his father Prinston Coffie, 46.

“A block of cement fell on his leg,” said the elder Coffie. “My son is my life, my life is broken.”

Moments after he uttered those words, the gates opened and his son was taken into the field hospital.

Next door, at Hospital de la Paix, it was chaos. Patients lay outdoors, in the hallways, flies landing on their exposed limbs, rags used as bandages soaked with blood. The smell of rotting flesh soiled the air.

Handwritten notes outlining their ailments were taped to the metal frames of some of their beds.

Iva Juan-Batista, 18, couldn’t stop crying as she held her two-year-old son whose nose had been broken when Tuesday’s earthquake destroyed their house.

He was being held by his paternal grandmother when the earth shook. The grandmother died. So did the boy’s father, Ricardo Regulier, 26.

“I am so very sad, I am so sad. I am depressed,” said Juan-Batista. “I have no help.”

She began to weep again, holding her son.

Dr. Mark Edwin Casseus, whose aunt lives in Montreal, said he had been working non-stop since Tuesday when he started at 6 p.m. and treated the wounded until 6 a.m. the next day with nine other doctors.

“It was horrible,” said Casseus. “There was only 10 of us, it was horrible — 400 people, open fractures, crushing trauma.”

He said they lack gauzes, IV bags, antibiotics, an X-ray machine and a functioning operating room.

“We manage to get by, but it’s not adequate,” said Casseus.

Medical teams from Spain, Chile and Cuba, however, were beginning to take charge of the hospital Saturday, first by separating patients by severity and limiting the number of family members allowed inside.

They were also bringing in medical supplies and commencing operations, said Hediberto Perez, with the Chilean medical team.

Order also returned to the front gates of the Canadian embassy where Canadian citizens seeking to flee Haiti had gathered, clamouring to get through the gates.

Canadian soldiers stepped in Friday to organize the lines, easing the processing by embassy staff.

Another load of 40 Canadians were put on an aircraft Saturday morning, bringing the total of evacuated to about 550 people, the military said.

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Canada's medical relief team gets to work
By Jorge Barrera, Canwest News Service
19 January 2010
Copy at: http://www.theprovince.com/health/Canada+medical+relief+team+gets+work/2458017/story.html

Medics and doctors from Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team landed in Haiti's coastal city of Jacmel Monday and immediately began healing broken bodies.

They treated patients under tarps outside a local hospital, damaged by the earthquake, where local doctors were doing their best to heal the badly wounded despite acute shortages.

"They have no surgery capability right now and that is the major problem," said Maj. Annie Bouchard, DART medical platoon commander. "Their anesthesia machine is broken and they have no supplies."

Bouchard said half of the 64 patients needed surgery to "either save their limb or save their life."

Jacmel, which sits south of Port-au-Prince, is the focus of Canada's efforts in Haiti.

"It's clear there is a need here for potable water and medical and construction equipment," said Col. Bruce Ewing, DART commander. "It's a perfect set up for the DART."

Ewing said that DART plans to set up a medical clinic that will be able to treat 250 people a day and there are plans to also provide care in the surrounding areas through mobile medical units.

"It's terrible for a lot of people, a lot of people lost their homes," said Colette Chandler, a local woman who said she was a cousin of Governor General Michaelle Jean, whose family lived in Jacmel.

Ewing said the area was at the top of the list for Canadian deployment shortly after the first reconnaissance team landed.

"No one else appeared to be thinking about coming," he said.

HMCS Halifax is expected Tuesday to arrive off Jacmel's coast and will provide some 50 sailors.

Ewing said 60 DART members were on the ground Monday, including 25 medics and "four or five" doctors, the rest are security forces.

The team, however, faces major logistical challenges as the roads remain blocked and the port is damaged, meaning the navy will have to come ashore in smaller boats.

The UN is also currently on the ground along with Colombian and Brazilian search-and-rescue teams.

The local Haitian police have since abandoned their posts and local government is non-existent.

A UN force from Sri Lanka is also currently deployed in Jacmel, where an estimated 84,000 people are homeless.
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Canadian medics bring hope
Aid station a symbol to Haitians
By THANE BURNETT, QMI Agency
26 Jan 2010
link : http://www.torontosun.com/news/haiti/2010/01/26/12615966.html

As world powers met in Montreal on Monday to help Haiti survive a hard future, Canadian medics in this port town were dealing with lines of suffering that grow longer each day.

Canadian soldiers and sailors, aided by their air force peers flying above, have built a small medical aid station on the docks. To the people of Jacmel, it has come to symbolize a line of hope, between the disaster and the sea.

Last Saturday, 60 patients made their way to the guarded gate.

On Sunday, the number was 140.

As Canadian sailors from HMCS Halifax help clear routes in the town, the wounded and the sore arrive on foot.

The survivors of the magnitude 7 earthquake that claimed as many as 200,000 people hold ripped cloth over festering wounds or try to comfort feverish babies under a hot sun.

The Canadians have also helped to secure aid drops, a process that was near calamity, locals explain, before the military showed up.

Maj. Annie Bouchard, the medical platoon commander with Canada's Disaster Response Team (DART), told QMI Agency on Monday that word is spreading high into the nearby hills, that the Canadians are offering aid and comfort.

Nursing a broken right hand from a fall on shattered ground, Dr. Bouchard added the line at the gate has often been packed with sick and frail children.

As she spoke, behind her in one of the tents, Canadian navy medic Jennifer MacDonald checked the tender belly of a little girl who had been vomiting.

It's the able seaman's first foreign deployment.

"The people are appreciative -- they're just looking for any help at all," said the Petawawa, Ont.-based sailor.

The child she checked stayed perfectly still. Quality medical care has long been scarce around Jacmel. Even the children seem to appreciate this fact.

Marie Chelan nudged to the front of the line, hoping to have her feverish three-month-old son, John, checked out. She and the child have been sleeping on the street with no coverings since the earthquake.

"Where else could I take him but here?" she asked.

Nearby, there's a box of toys -- trucks and dolls handed out for sudden wonderment.

But it's not just the young the Canadians treat gingerly.

On Monday, Leris Adonis made his way, with one leg, to the medical outpost.

He lost the leg before the quake. That's not what was bothering the 90-year-old Haitian -- an age he only guesses at since his birth certificate was lost long ago.

Instead he explained: "I'm just angry all the time, and I can't eat.

"Not since the earthquake."

The Canadians took time with him, before sending him off with some pills for other ailments.

"I'm glad I came," Adonis said as he walked up the street. "I only feel a little angry now."

This week, the dominion watched over by the Canadians is expected to grow.

DART officials plan to start chopper flights, to check on more remote mountain communities.

Rather than waiting for them to come down to show up at the medic station, a dose of hope may finally come to them.

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http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/755843

This Haitian town is singing Canada's praise
Disaster response team's emotions run high as grateful Haitians turn out to thank them

Brett Popplewell
Staff Reporter

JACMEL, HAITI–Members of Canada's elite Disaster Assistance Response Team brushed tears from their cheeks Monday after more than 100 people from this town descended on the team's seaside field hospital to give thanks to the Canadians for their help in treating their wounded.

"It's overwhelming," said 30-year-old Cpl. Cheryl Belanger, a medical technician and member of DART who hails from Ottawa.

"To work all day long with people in need and then to end it with them coming out to thank us by singing in the street, it takes you out of the big picture for a moment."

The Canadians arrived in Jacmel last week when much of the town's population was still trapped in their demolished homes.

Today, survivors of the earthquake that reduced Governor General Michaëlle Jean's hometown to rubble are living in tents in the streets.

On Friday the team set up their field hospital on the pier at the base of the downtown core. From there a team of 40 medics have helped treat hundreds of people, including 240 on Monday.

"Today was our busiest day by far," said Maj. Annie Bouchard, the medic overseeing the field hospital, who has been working with a broken hand.

Four days into a deployment that could last 40 days, the major says DART's medical team is already operating near its limits.

"We can't really handle any more (patients) than what we had today," said Bouchard, a native of Quebec City.

"We need NGOs to open up here to give us some relief. We haven't had any deaths in (our field hospital) yet, but we have seen big wounds."

Many of the first foreign aid workers to arrive in Haiti are now rotating out. As DART members treat the wounded on the Jacmel pier, exhausted aid workers just metres away board ships bound for the Dominican Republic.

"We are tired," said French aid worker Lamotte Quenten, heaving his bag over his shoulder and walking onto a military ship waiting for him and 15 other aid workers who had been on the ground for more than a week.

As the first wave of volunteers begins to leave the crisis in Haiti, the mass movement of refugees from Port-au-Prince is only beginning to take its toll on the countryside.

Jacmel, a town on the south coast of Haiti, is not the final destination for most refugees, but it is on the route to some of the country's more rural towns, where refugees have begun to flee.

Bouchard said her team has started to see patients coming in from neighbouring towns including the capital, which remains a four-hour bus ride from Jacmel.

Last week the road from Port-au-Prince to Jacmel, which passes through Leogane (epicentre for the quake that left the capital in ruins), was closed due to damage caused by the tremors, which tore apart the asphalt and left boulders and debris. Now it is lined with a steady flow of buses and trucks of all shapes, colours, sizes and ages carrying refugees from the capital.

Intercity buses are so overloaded with refugees that they pile onto the roofs. The bare feet of refugees dangle over the back of pickup trucks as they climb the hills (also devastated, not by the quake but by a century of deforestation) that divide Port-au-Prince and Jacmel.

In the capital, the streets were chaotic and crowded, even by this city's standards, as refugees moved en masse for roads leading out. With the port and airfield monopolized by foreign aid groups, survivors are travelling by foot, car, truck and bus to escape the devastation.

The city is quickly emptying to the countryside. The government says 150,000 to 200,000 people have left Port-au-Prince, a city that housed 2.5 million Haitians before the earthquake.

As many as 1 million people need to find new shelter, the United Nations estimates, and there aren't enough tents or safe buildings for them.

As poor as the country is, many Haitians have long made a living as agricultural workers in the countryside. Whether that countryside, which lacks the aid resources of the capital, can sustain the influx of domestic refugees remains unclear.

Canadian DART team medical technicians, Master Cpl. Lucie Rouleau, left, and Cpl. Cheryl Belanger join in a tearful embrace after a group of about 100 people from Jacmel sang songs of thanks to the Canadian team.
LUCAS OLENIUK/TORONTO STAR

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I realize this post is duplicated from one up on the news board.

Canadian military clinic delivers baby amid destruction in Haitian town
Andrew Mayeda, Canwest News Service: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:18 PM

JACMEL, Haiti — Since the earthquake, Canadian Forces have delivered food, water and other necessities to the people of this pretty seaside town.

But shortly before 1 p.m. on Thursday, they made a delivery of a different kind: Monique Lucie-Marie, a six-pound baby girl.

She is the first baby to be born at a field clinic set up by Canadian troops less than a week ago. Her parents were so grateful to the medics who delivered her —Master Cpl. Lucie Rouleau and Cpl. Monique Bartlett — that they named their first-born child after them.

"They're the two doctors who brought my daughter into this world, so we wanted her to have the same names," said the baby's elated father, Pierre Jean-Charles.

His wife, Marie Jean-Gilles, was catching some much-needed rest after a nerve-wracking day that began when she was taken to the city's hospital, only to find they couldn't treat her.

For the two medics, who normally work at a military hospital in Canada where most of the patients are members of the Forces, it was a touching moment amid the grind of treating a long line of Haitians queuing under the scorching sun.

"This really raised our morale. It makes you realize why we're here," said Bartlett, 37, a native of Gagetown, N.B.

Originally, Canadian military medics were dispatched to the city's hospital, which was badly damaged in the Jan. 12 earthquake, forcing patients to lie on the ground outside.

A team of U.S. civilian doctors has since taken over the operating room, but the hospital remains unable to treat everyone who shows up.

The field clinic has been relieving some pressure by treating all the "walking wounded."

While medics have performed some amputations, many patients are now showing up with less serious ailments.

The clinic is part of a multi-pronged effort by the military to bring relief to this small city, the hometown of Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean's mother.

As of Thursday, there were about 1,500 Canadian troops on the ground in Haiti, with the rest of Canada's contingent stationed in the town of Leogane, west of the capital of Port-au-Prince. Once all the Canadian troops have arrived, Canada should have about 2,100 personnel in the country — roughly the same number that are based in Afghanistan.

Jacmel was not pummelled as badly in the magnitude-7.0 earthquake as Port-au-Prince. While some buildings downtown collapsed, most of the brightly painted homes in the city are still standing.

Yet in the days following the quake, the tortuous road between Jacmel and the capital was all but impassable due to fallen rocks and debris, cutting off residents here from the main source of relief.

Canadian engineers have been clearing the road, and by Thursday, the drive from Port-au-Prince had been reduced to three hours.

"There were certainly challenges in the beginning," said Maj. Bernard Dionne, a military spokesman. "We almost take it day by day here."

The military has also refurbished the city's tiny airstrip so that hulking transport planes and helicopters could deliver personnel and supplies.

The Canadians set up a makeshift air-traffic control tower and cut down trees at the head of the 1,000-metre runway so transport aircraft, which usually land on runways roughly three times as long, would not have to execute too steep an approach.

"When we got here, there was basically nothing on the ground, no air-traffic control," said Maj. Scott Frost, after landing a Hercules C-130 transport plane at the airport, which now serves as the military's primary supply hub in the country.

Back at port, the turquoise water laps gently against the anchored HMCS Halifax. But according to Sgt. Tony Weeks, who is in charge of the military's water-purification unit, it's the most undrinkable water he's ever seen.

A polluted river typically contains about 900 parts per million of dissolved solids, said Weeks. The water off the coast of Jacmel registers at about 35,000 parts per million.

Behind him, a dark green metal box known as a reverse-osmosis water-purification unit chugs away on full bore, squeezing out impurities through eight different membranes before pumping out clean water.

The unit is now producing about 26,000 litres of drinking water a day that is being delivered to residents of Jacmel.

Cpl. Lucie Rouleau (left) and Cpl. Monique Bartlett hold a new born girl named Monique-Lucie Marie in a Canadian field hospital in Jacmal, Haiti on January 28, 2010. The baby was named after the two medics who helped with the delivery.
Photo Credit: Kier Gilmour, Canwest News Service

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From the fact sheet
Information updated 27 January 2010
http://comfec-cefcom.forces.gc.ca/pa-ap/ops/fs-fr/hestia-eng.asp

# Medical Platoon

    * 24 orphans flown to Canada 25 January; 48 more to depart 28 January
    * Clinic now working at full capacity; 356 patients seen 26 January
    * Aid station established at the U.N. camp
    * Working closely with civilian humanitarian agency Canadian Medical Assistance Teams (CMAT) and
       medical personnel from other units of Joint Task Force Haiti

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Two big thumbs up to the DART!

One thumb down to the Toronto Star for identifying Major Bouchard as a "medic".  She is a doctor.

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From the fact sheet
Updated 29 January 2010;
http://comfec-cefcom.forces.gc.ca/pa-ap/ops/fs-fr/hestia-eng.asp

Patients seen to date at all DART clinics: 2,783


Link the the Canadian Press video on yesterday's baby delivery story;
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/haiti/2010/01/29/12667091.html
   

If you read this story in a few years' time, Monique-Lucie Marie, here's how things happened on the day you were born.
    Updated 29th January 2010, 2:02pm

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Tending to Haiti's wounded
QUAKE RELIEF: 'We treat all the patients we see with dignity,' says Trenton-based medic
By LUKE HENDRY THE BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER
29 January 2010
http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2280398

The mission to help victims of the Haitian earthquake is making progress daily, a local medic says.

Cpl. Alex Robitaille is a medic with Trenton's 24 Health Services unit. He's now on his first deployment with the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), having arrived in Haiti Jan. 13, the day after the quake. He's now in the town of Jacmel, where the bulk of Canadians are serving.

"The day-to-day routine has had a fast pace," he told The Intelligencer Wednesday in an e-mail message written between seeing patients.

"I have been seeing at least 12 patients each day, dealing with at first lots of injuries from the earthquake ... There were a lot of fractures and wound care and it became more chronic problems like back pain and various infections."

At first, he said, there was a lack of supplies as medics treated people using only what they carried in their medical bag. The real challenge is now to ensure patients continue to get the care they need, but the Canadian camp's systems are improving daily.

It's hoped a hospital can be created in Jacmel, he said.

Robitaille said it's difficult for the team to be away from home, but also dealing with Haitians' poor living conditions. That, said Robitaille, includes tending wounds and then "telling them that they should keep the wound clean and sending them back to live in the streets."

He recalled two very different images of the quake's aftermath: a father crying in fear of losing his sick child and a group of Haitians who visited the Canadians' camp to sing and play music in thanks.

"One of the biggest needs is food and water and DART is working on it," said Robitaille. "Being one of the first nations on the ground and starting to make a difference the day after the earthquake is something we could be proud of.

"One thing Canadians should know about Canadian medics is how we treat all the patients we see with dignity and as we would like to be treated ourselves." .....................

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Canadian military brings mobile surgical unit to hard hit Haitian community

The Canadian Press
30 January 2010
copy at: http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/world/article/438118--canadian-military-brings-mobile-surgical-unit-to-hard-hit-haitian-community

JACMEL, Haiti - The Canadian military has helped provide a critical medical facility in the earthquake ravaged Haitian community of Jacmel.

The Canadian Forces has transported a mobile surgical unit that was donated by a Swiss emergency relief association.

Capt. Meghan Joiner is the medical liaison with Canada's Disaster Assistance Relief Team.

She says the military used vehicles to bring the self-contained unit from the capital Port-Au-Prince and cleared a site for it.

Joiner says many of the people affected by the earthquake require various surgical procedures.

She says although there is a backlog of patients in Jacmel, things are slowly improving as various countries bring more resources into the area.

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Canada earns its wings
By: Dan Lett
The Winnipeg Free Press
30 January 2010
copy at: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/Canada-earns-its-wings-83147562.html

JACMEL, Haiti -- The moment the chain-link gate opened, Beatrice's cries rose to a fran­tic pitch, the sound bouncing off the crum­bling walls of abandoned buildings and flooding the tents at the Canadian Forces field clinic.

Those plaintiff cries ensured Beatrice was the first patient admit­ted to the clinic. Just a few months old, Beatrice continued shrieking as a Canadian medic looked her over and asked the mother a few questions. The medic suspected a respiratory ailment.

As Beatrice made her way into the clinic, more than 100 other patients jos­tled to be next. There were some angry words and violent pushing near the end of the line, which had dissolved from an orderly column into a surging throng. A triage medic scanned the crowd before summoning an elderly man whose legs shook violently and a younger man with a badly infected leg that had swelled up to twice its normal size.

It is a scene that has become familiar to Maj.

Annie Bouchard, a military physician and the commanding officer for this clinic. It is the fifth day the clinic -- part of Canada's Disaster As­sistance Relief Team (DART) force -- has been open. For days before that, Canadian military doctors and medics worked tirelessly in the rubble of Jacmel's only hospital. The clinic is now the only source of primary health care in Jacmel, a seaside city of 40,000 in southern Haiti well-known to Canadians as the childhood home to Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean.

Two weeks has passed since the earthquake rocked Haiti, but the patient load is increasing, not decreasing. There are fewer trauma cases related to the earthquake, Bouchard noted, but there are an increasing number of serious earthquake-related afflictions: pneumonia, de­hydration and malnutrition, raging infections.

"The first day we were open, we had 10 pa­tients," said Bouchard, one of four emergency­room physicians working at the clinic. "Yester­day we had 350 and it's going to keep going up."

The tempo and magnitude of Canada's pres­ence in Haiti is remarkable, especially when you consider there are limited avenues to get supplies and personnel into the impoverished country.

And yet, Canada has moved more than one million kilograms of aid and mission support materiel into Haiti since the quake hit Jan. 12.

How did they do it? "It was air force support," Bouchard said. "We could not have done this without the air force."

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DART medical teams get out in the field in Haiti
The Canadian Press
31 January 2010
copy at: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100131/DART_Haiti_100131/20100131?hub=World

JACMEL, Haiti — Canada's Disaster Assistance Relief Team is putting a new tool in the field in earthquake shattered Haiti.

The DART will send out a mobile medical team today for the first time in Haiti.

The team will spend the day in an area about 15 kilometres from the village of Leogane.

In an email, Canadian Forces Major Bernard Dionne says the area has been assessed as one where many Haitians suffered earthquake-related injuries.

The mobile medical teams consist of nearly a dozen medical personnel, plus a few soldiers to offer protection and Dionne says they can treat 100 people a day.

He says the military plans to send one team out each day, and will use helicopters to get them into areas where no road access is available.

Dionne says the concept was used successfully in Pakistan after that country was hard-hit by an earthquake in 2005.

Personnel from the teams are drawn from DART's medical clinic.

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DART Medical Platoon
          - 1 February: Village medical outreach patrol north of Segueneau with 1 medical officer and 3 medical 
             technicians supported by infantry


From the DND front page;

January 31, 2010 - Tom Gato, Haiti

Corporal Melissa Bisutti, a member of the Mobile Medical Team (MMT) examines a little boy from Tom Gato, Haiti. The MMT is a section of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) that provides basic medical assistance to remote areas around Jacmel, Haiti that have been damaged during the earthquake.

Photo: Corporal Julie Bélisle, Canadian Forces Combat Camera

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From the fact sheet;
http://comfec-cefcom.forces.gc.ca/pa-ap/ops/fs-fr/hestia-eng.asp

03 Feb 2010

- Patients seen to date at Village Medical Outreach clinics: 332

DART Medical Platoon

 - Village Medical Outreach patrols conducted daily; each team comprises 1 medical officer and 3 medical
   technicians supported by infantry

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Here's a short clip from CTV news (via YouTube):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNG_zLLm8ng

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from the fact sheet;
http://comfec-cefcom.forces.gc.ca/pa-ap/ops/fs-fr/hestia-eng.asp

as of 05 Feb 2010

DART Medical Platoon

    * Mobile Medical Teams conducting walk-in clinics in towns near Jacmel
    * Static clinics operating at full capacity
    * Working closely with civilian humanitarian agency Canadian Medical Assistance Teams (CMAT) and medical personnel from other units of Joint Task Force Haiti


# Patients seen to date at Village Medical Outreach clinics: 641

# Patients seen to date: 3591  (estimate by subtracting the Fd Hosp. total of 1336 and outreach total 641 from 5,568).

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January 31, 2010 - Tom Gato, Haiti

Corporal (Cpl) Petra Sutton, a member of the Mobile Medical Team (MMT) examines a little boy from Tom Gato, Haiti. The MMT is a section of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) that provides basic medical assistance to remote areas around Jacmel, Haiti that have been damaged during the earthquake.

Photo: Corporal Julie Bélisle, Canadian Forces Combat Camera

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