http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/vier24/10pakis.html
More than one million Pakistanis treated by Cuban doctors . 10,920 operations performed, 39.9% of them major TEXT AND PHOTOS: Juvenal Balán Neyra, Granma daily special correspondent THE white-coated army comprising the Henry Reeve International Contingent, whose vanguard arrived in Pakistan on October 14 last year to give humanitarian aid to the victims of the devastating earthquake six days previously, have attended to 1,043,125 patients, of which 439,894 were treated in field hospitals in the northern mountains of this country. That figure was announced at the command post of the contingent located in Abbottabad on February 23. It was also stated that 503,881 of the patients are women, representing 48.3%. In the field hospital operating rooms at various points of the Pakistani provinces of NWFP and Kashmir most affected by the quake, orthopedics and surgeons have performed 10,920 important operations, many of them highly complex. In addition, the rooms in the Cuban field hospitals located at 32 positions in the region of the disaster, have admitted close to 6,000 patients for a number of days to guarantee them adequate medical attention. In Data hospital in the Mansehra district, it is already commonplace to the see two adolescents aged 14 and 13 daily crossing the field hospital from the in-patients section to that occupied by the rehabilitation and physiotherapy teams. Both of them are from Balakot and have had a limb amputated. They are victims of the earthquake. Omer Zeb painfully recalls how he held his youngest sister tightly to his chest under the roof of their home and realized that she had died. Nasir Crujjar was left an orphan. Now they are having daily specialized treatment for their amputation wounds and exercise sessions to strengthen the stump and increase its angle of movement, with the aim of receiving an artificial replacement which will allow them reinsertion in society and subsequently, post-prosthesis treatment. Omer and Nasir are just two examples of the 76,183 patients to have received physiotherapy in the Cuban contingent's field hospital, who have benefited from 432,118 rehabilitation techniques, including sophisticated equipment like laser rays. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/aYWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Milis Wanita Muslimah Membangun citra wanita muslimah dalam diri, keluarga, maupun masyarakat. Situs Web: http://www.wanita-muslimah.com ARSIP DISKUSI : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wanita-muslimah/messages Kirim Posting mailto:wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Berhenti mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Milis Keluarga Sejahtera mailto:keluarga-sejahtera@yahoogroups.com Milis Anak Muda Islam mailto:majelismuda@yahoogroups.com This mailing list has a special spell casted to reject any attachment .... Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wanita-muslimah/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/