A Child's Story - "Baby Girl" of Haiti
POSTED ON Jan 20, 2010 / UPDATED ON Jan 27, 2011
Doctors give "Baby Girl" some Tylenol to ease her pain as her mother holds her. The baby was trapped under her house for two days after Haiti’s earthquake on Tuesday. (Photo: Scott Cook)
It was two days before she was found under the rubble of the home she shared with her mother. The 18-month-old little girl was trapped under her house after Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti. Her mother, however, wouldn’t give up. “She was trying to move the rubble herself to find her child,” one doctor told me.
Eventually, the Haitian woman found her child under her home. Seriously wounded, hungry and traumatized, the baby needed immediate attention. However, so did everyone else in Haiti. The mother began walking to the local hospital with her injured baby in her arms and was picked up and driven the rest of the way.
Once there, the doctors were able to stitch up and treat the girl’s head wounds, but that’s all they could do for lack of supplies and the many more who needed help. Somehow, the woman and baby arrived at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Jimani a few days ago—the little baby still in need of critical care, her hand infected to the point of the possible need to amputate it. However, this little Haitian baby has survived against all odds and her mother seems grateful and full of hope.
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