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Live Reporting From Haiti: Dr. Paul Auerbach Calls Dr. Val Via Skype

January 25th, 2010 by Dr. Val Jones in Audio, Better Health Network, Expert Interviews

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Paul Auerbach, MD (far right)

In this extraordinary first-hand account, Dr. Paul Auerbach (he is now the head administrator for NGOs at Port Au Prince’s largest hospital) describes what he has seen on the ground since his arrival one week ago.

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“The floor was covered with bodies. Some were dead, some were alive, some were screaming… There were rows of children with missing limbs… The smell of dead bodies was coming out of the old nursing quarters where the peers of the women helping us lay dead… The Haitian people are the strongest people I’ve ever seen.”

The second half of this interview may be viewed here.

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