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Haiti quake creates thousands of new orphans
(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-01-19 20:28
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Jackson said all 37 of his orhpans are physically fine and he would like to help more children.
"There needs to be some communication from the government level about what we need to do. Can we take these children?" he said. "We're ready. We've already raised a fair amount of money where we can go out and get an orphanage running soon."
Sherrie Fausey had to evacuate 30 children from her Christian Light Foundation orphanage in the capital after her facility was badly damaged in the quake.
"Wherever the Lord sends you, he'll make you content to be there," she said. "Times can be hard, but I'd rather be here in all this rubble. It's where my kids are."
At the Israeli field hospital, doctors are expecting to treat many more orphans in the coming days.
On one of the hospital's stretchers, Patient No. 236, a 6-month-old boy, lay on a hospital stretcher, crying in pain. Relatives brought him to the medical center shortly after the disaster, then left. They didn't tell anyone the boy's name.
Doctors suspect the infant had meningitis long before the earthquake — and they also suspect that no one is coming back for him.
"We will wait to discharge him until there is a facility that can grant continuous care," Amit said.
