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Physicians from various parts of the world are serving the survivors of Haiti earthquake by lending their expertise in saving the people. Haiti is slowly recovering from the consequences of the earthquake and some healthcare professionals from Europe and U.S. are arriving to serve the people affected with quake-related injuries, and various other illness such as pneumonia, tuberculosis elc, spread through campings.

A physicians team led by Allen Rothpearl, the Long Island radiologist, is attending the Haitians directly from New York, California and Texas, by reading 20 to 40 digital x-rays a day availing no-charge.

This was made possible through St. Damien’s, a nonprofit pediatric medical center in Haiti whose x-ray suite endured no damage at all during the quake. The builders of the medical center had constructed the radiology room with six-inch thick concrete walls to resist radiation leakage. This was actually done to reduce costs, since the usually used lead sheets for avoiding radiation leakage were very expensive.

The digital x-rays taken from the St. Damien’s reaches Dr. Rothpearl and his team automatically and they responds within an hour. A software is installed converts the x-ray images into digital, stores and finally transmits them to the New York team. The abnormalities, if found, will be alerted to Mr.Reache who supervises the St. Damien’s x-ray operations and he reports it to the physician.

The radiologist team tracked development of Haitian’s health after the quake through these remote readings. They saw mainly fractured and crushed limbs in the first few weeks. The physicians are also observing the physical conditions of the Haitians in the camps, living in the unsanitary and crowded environment.

A new equipment which upgrades the digital radiology software was donated by Dr. Rothpearl. This new equipment boosts the transmission speed and also manifolds the storage capacity of the server.

Recently, a three-month-old baby who suffered from breath shortness was diagnosed by Rothpearl from New York and found out that the child’s lungs were collapsing.