WRAP US military resumes emergency airlifts of quake victims, ambulances
(1 Feb 2010) SHOTLIST 1. Patient being carried inside University of Miami field hospital in Haiti 2. Various of children being treated by medics 3. Various of Dr. Mike Sheehan showing to US Air force soldiers the list of patients who should fly 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Mike Sheehan, doctor: "It''s a great thing that the military transports have opened up again. We have had lots of patients who are critically ill that we have being caring for, but they need more care than we can provide here, and having that opened up and get them out of here, the military came up yesterday and said we have a plane, we can take 15 people, you give us your list, we will get them cleared to the State Department and we are going to take them. So they are going to come at 1030 and we have got a list of seven people who probably would die within 48 hours if they don''t get out of here. " 5. Wide of Hercules aircraft on tarmac at Port-au-Prince international airport 6. US Air Force cargo plane taking off 7. US military ambulance parked outside hospital complex 8. Various of critically ill patients being loaded into ambulance, for medical evacuation to United States STORYLINE The US military has resumed urgent medical evacuation flights for Haitian quake victims, an official announced Monday. US Army Colonel Gregory Kane said a medical evacuation flight left Haiti for the United States late on Sunday, almost five days after the flights were suspended by squabbling over space and health costs at American public hospitals. The US military had another plane ready to go on Monday with a capacity for 15 patients, the chief medical officer at the University of Miami field hospital in Haiti, Dr. Mike Sheehan told reporters. "We have a list of seven people who would probably die within 48 hours if they don''t get out of here," he said. The White House said it was resuming the military airlift of critically injured earthquake victims after being assured that additional medical capacity exists in US hospitals. The halt of flights on Wednesday worried doctors in Haiti who said hundreds could die without specialised care. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
