Haiti awash in doctors; nurses in short supply

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Haiti awash in doctors; nurses in short supply

By Desjardins and le Dellorto, CNN January 25, 2010

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- So many doctors are answering Haiti's call for

medical aid that the largest hospital in Port-au-Prince has a new problem:

organizing and finding good use for them all...

Nurses are in short supply. A nursing school on the grounds of the general

hospital was crushed in the earthquake, killing some of the people who would be

giving care now. The flood of outside volunteers is mostly doctors, not

nurses...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/25/haiti.doctors.nurses/index.html