Jordanie Derulus, a 10-year-old orphaned by the January 2010 earthquake, tests out his new prosthetic leg from Healing Hands for Haiti. “I can kick a soccer ball again, and walk! It’s a wonderful thing,” he said. Photo by Daniel Cima for the American Red Cross.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 — A state-of-the-art outpatient rehabilitation clinic and prosthetics center was inaugurated Tuesday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, marking a new phase in progress to assist the city’s thousands of amputees, many of whom were disabled by the January 2010 earthquake.
The center, operated by Healing Hands for Haiti (HHH) with support in part from the American Red Cross, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and other members of the global Red Cross network, is a welcome and highly anticipated resource.
More than 5,000 people lost limbs following the 7.0 magnitude quake that collapsed buildings and homes and killed more than 300,000 people. Support from the ICRC Special Fund for the Disabled, to which the American Red Cross contributed more than $1.3 million specifically for the Port-au-Prince clinic, will provide prosthetic devices for 1,000 people and rehabilitation services for 3,000 people. With just one physician and 40 staff members for the entire operation, including a prosthesis workshop operated with partner organization Handicap International, Riché Zamor, executive director of the center, anticipates a substantial workload, even though initial capacity for the prosthetics department is limited to lower limbs.
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