Hardest hit

Haiti | With nearly half a million orphaned children before the quake, Haiti's challenge to parent them just got bigger | Jamie Dean

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PORT-AU-PRINCE—When doctors first hunched over 6-year-old Jean in a crowded medical clinic supply closet, I braced myself for a horrifying sight: the painful death of a child.

All the signs were there: The severely malnourished and dehydrated boy with cerebral palsy took shallow breaths. His twig-like arms and legs shook. His weak eyes rolled back into his head. During a series of wrenching medical procedures without anesthesia, he barely whimpered. I left the makeshift clinic near Port-au-Prince that afternoon thinking Jean's first day at Presbyterian Mission in Haiti (PMH) might be his last (see "Aftershock," Feb. 13).

Less than two weeks later, unexpected news arrived: Jean was alive and well. A volunteer pediatrician with Flying Doctors of America had saved his life, and Haitian women from the mission's local congregation had cared for his daily needs—feeding him, bathing him, clothing him, holding him.

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March 13, 2010, Vol. 25, No. 5

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