Haiti Earthquake - Canadian/Norwegian Red Cross Field Hospital 2010

On January 12 2010 a massive earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale rocked Port-au-Prince the capital of the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti. It is estimated that up to 3 000 000 people have been affected by the disaster either through injury or through loss of access to life-sustaining necessities such as food water sanitation services and shelter. This emergency field hospital is a first-level referral hospital jointly implemented by the Norwegian and Canadian Red Cross. It provides essential surgical and medical care for up to 250 000 people. The hospital’s inpatient capacity is 120 - 150 beds. Its services include an operating theatre an intensive observation area a laboratory maternal-child health services a pharmacy outpatient clinics and anaesthesia X-ray and sterilization facilities.