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– Woman, 84, man, 22, pulled out aliveA 84-year-old Haitian woman was pulled from the rubble 10 days after Haiti’s killer earthquake, but a doctor treating her said she is in bad condition and may not survive.Relatives of Marie Carida Romain say they freed her yesterday from the ruins of her house.Yves Romain, a 58-year-old telephone technician, said he and his family were sleeping in front of the collapsed home when they heard moaning from inside and called neighbours for help. After 20 hours of digging with bare hands, he said, they freed his mother.The woman,Arizona Diamondbacks Gregor Blanco Jersey, looking skeletal and unconscious,Cheap Jerseys From China, was being treated at the capital’s General Hospital. “She is very thin. She is in a state of shock and severely dehydrated,Nike NFL Jerseys China,” said Dr. Louis Auguste,Cheap Soccer Jerseys Wholesale, who works at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York.He said that while she had been buried for a long time, “there were always people who defy the norm.”Later that day, an Israeli Search and Rescue team saved a 22-year-old Haitian man from a collapsed three-story building. The man was transferred to an Israeli Defense Field Hospital and is in stable condition.The latest rescues come as Haiti begins to wind down its search-and-rescue operation, instead shifting focus to keeping earthquake victims alive.Haiti’s government estimates the Jan. 12 quake killed 200,000 people, as reported by the European Commission. It said 250,000 people were injured and 2 million homeless in the nation of 9 million. Others offer smaller estimates.The disaster has prompted what the Red Cross calls the greatest deployment of emergency responders in its 91-year history. Nations around the world have offered what they can: more than $500 million from European nations,Cheap NFL Jerseys, money even from impoverished Chad and Congo, and a ton of tea from Sri Lanka. The U.N.’s World Food Program said it has distributed more than 1.4 million food rations – each with three meals, and has a fleet of trucks bringing food and supplies from the Dominican Republic.“We are planning to flood the country with food,” Myrta Kaulard,Brett Hull Red Wings Jersey, the agency’s Haiti director,Cheap Jerseys Online, told the AP. |
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