VOA标准英语2010年-Haiti Hospital Workers Say Patients Ne

Workers at a Haitian hospital say health care needs have moved beyond emergency medical aid for earthquake victims to long-term help for the injured, including amputees, and psychological counseling. 

At this Catholic pediatric hospital, injured patients are still arriving, adults as well as children.  Most come for follow-up care for injuries suffered in the catastrophic earthquake January 12th. 

Well over 100,000 people were killed, and thousands were buried in mass graves.  Many are still lying beneath the rubble¹.

Emergency supplies, have poured in from around the world, and in spite of logjams and bottlenecks², aid is reaching this hospital.  Workers unload boxes of medicine from Israel.

Doctors and nurses have come as well, says hospital personnel director Phadou Amisial. "We have doctors from Slovakia, doctors from Germany, doctors from Europe, and we have doctors from the United States also, Canada and so on," he said.

American surgeon Philip Smith came from Chattanooga, Tennessee.  He says most patients are now getting follow-up care and their needs will be long-term. "The infected wounds, the wounds that need to be covered somehow, an amputation³ stump⁴ that continues to need additional work.  So while the most devastating⁵ injuries were initially⁶ (treated), they're not something you can treat in one week and be done with," he said.

Patients are treated for other ailments⁷, from influenza⁸ to appendicitis⁹, as would have been the case without the quake.

Many young patients are traumatized, including a young boy whose leg was partially¹⁰ amputated after it was injured and became infected.

The hospital staff are also coping with raw emotions.   A hospital nursing supervisor¹¹ watched as her husband struggled for hours to pull their three children from their collapsed¹² house.  All of the children survived, but she is shaken by the widespread destruction and loss of life. "It was very shocking.  There were some of our hospital workers who died.  People in the street died.  Our family members died.  It was really hard," she said.

Hospital personnel director Phadou Amisial says the need is tremendous, and that patients here today will need help for months to come, including rehabilitation¹³ and counseling. "They come here.  We do amputations, we do this, we do that.  We try to save lives, but what happens in the future," he said.

He said Haiti needs help to build its medical infrastructure¹⁴ to meet the long-term needs of its people.  He hopes the international community, so active in the earthquake relief effort, will remember that.

1 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

2 bottlenecks   

n.瓶颈( bottleneck的名词复数 )；瓶颈路段（常引起交通堵塞）；（尤指工商业发展的）瓶颈；阻碍

参考例句：

• Roadworks are causing bottlenecks in the city centre. 道路施工导致市中心交通阻塞。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• At five o'clock in the afternoon the city streets are a series of bottlenecks. 下午五点市中心的街道就成了拥挤不堪的窄路。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3 amputation   

n.截肢

参考例句：

• In ancient India,adultery was punished by amputation of the nose.在古代印度，通奸要受到剖鼻的处罚。
• He lived only hours after the amputation.截肢后，他只活了几个小时。

4 stump   

n.残株，烟蒂，讲演台；v.砍断，蹒跚而走

参考例句：

• He went on the stump in his home state.他到故乡所在的州去发表演说。
• He used the stump as a table.他把树桩用作桌子。

5 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

6 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

7 ailments   

疾病（尤指慢性病），不适( ailment的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His ailments include a mild heart attack and arthritis. 他患有轻度心脏病和关节炎。
• He hospitalizes patients for minor ailments. 他把只有小病的患者也送进医院。

8 influenza   

n.流行性感冒，流感

参考例句：

• They took steps to prevent the spread of influenza.他们采取措施
• Influenza is an infectious disease.流感是一种传染病。

9 appendicitis   

n.阑尾炎，盲肠炎

参考例句：

• He came down with appendicitis.他得了阑尾炎。
• Acute appendicitis usually develops without relation to the ingestion of food.急性阑尾炎的发生通常与饮食无关。

10 partially   

adv.部分地，从某些方面讲

参考例句：

• The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
• The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。

11 supervisor   

n.监督人，管理人，检查员，督学，主管，导师

参考例句：

• Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说，我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
• He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。

12 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

13 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

14 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。