Another miracle

By Nico — January 27, 2010 | 3 comments

Every night we meet on the roof of the Canadian embassy. After filing their stories, “showering” above the toilets sink, eating Canadian Army rations journalists and reporters sit down and share stories as they “rehydrate”. A lot of emotions and impressions are being shared every night between the tents and sleeping bags lined up on this little peace of lawn. At the end of a full day of shooting, interviewing and running around in this chaotic city it is good to sit down, breathe a little. Stefan Randstrom and Simon Paine (the crew from Inside Disaster) told me an amazing story of what they saw on their shoot today.

They went to the University of Miami Hospital set up near the Civil airport here in Port-Au-Prince. For a few days they had been trying to find the young girl who was saved from the rubble of the Caribbean Market last week (see previous blogs). As they were asking questions to different doctors, one of them said “Come over here, I got a good story for you”.

They followed the doctor and found themselves beside the bed of a barely conscious man. His back and legs where hurt. Like many others he had been pulled out of the rubble of his house 4 days after it had collapsed. The rescue team had declared him dead and sent him to the morgue where he was refrigerated. He could have been brought to the mass graves or to the “street” morgues.

24 hours later a worker at the morgue was making room for more bodies when he noticed the man presumed dead had a pulse. He was sent right away to the University of Miami hospital where they brought his body back to temperature.

Simon and Stefan told him that he was a lucky man, the man had the strength to nod and smile. You never know, you never, never know.

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