Huddersfield medical pair save thousands of lives in Haiti
Feb 8 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Medical pair save thousands of lives in Haiti
TWO Huddersfield medical professionals are back – after life-saving missions in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
Accident and emergency manager Craig Wood and emergency medicine consultant Amjid Mohammed were part of team who carried out emergency surgery on countless victims in capital Port-au-Prince last month.
Mr Wood and Dr Mohammed, who both work at Calderdale Royal Hospital, were flown out by medical relief charity Medical Emergency Relief International (Merlin) on January 18.
The team, including plastic surgeon Waseem Saeed who has a practice in Huddersfield, set up a temporary hospital on a tennis court in Delmas, near the centre of Port-au-Prince.
The voluntary team included an anaesthetist and nurses.
They were chosen because of their previous experience of working in disaster zones.
Both Mr Wood and Dr Mohammed had provided medical earthquake relief in Pakistan in 2005.
Dr Mohammed also helped in earthquake-hit China in 2008 and Indonesia in September.
Their team treated about 80 to 90 people a day, up to 10 of whom needed emergency surgery.
The death toll from last month’s devastating earthquake is now estimated to have been 212,000. A further 300,000 people were injured.
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