this,” said Bela Szilagyi, head of Hungarian Baptist Aid, who has been working in major disaster
zones for more than 10 years. Szilagyi said they came across “immense chaos, confusion, and the
terrible smell of dead bodies.”
The team set to work, doing the best they could to mend broken bones and bodies, providing
medical care for several hundred persons at a community clinic in Pétionville, a suburb of Port-au-
Prince, close to the epicenter of the 7.0 earthquake.
“Hundreds of people have been waiting for medical care in the hall and even in the parking lot at
the clinic,” said Szilagyi. Many, he said, had broken limbs and pelvises, fractured skulls, and badly
injured ankles and feet. “Most of the injuries were already infected because of not having medical
care for such a long time,” Szilagyi reported.
Country in Shock
Those touched by the quake were awestruck. “The whole country is in shock by this terrible event,”
wrote Jules Casseus, president of the Northern Haiti Christian University in Limbé, approximately 130
kilometers, or 80 miles, from Port-au-Prince. “What
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