Gallery: Médecins Sans Frontières: Images of Haiti

Updated: 16:04, Monday, 18 January 2010

Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders is providing independent medical relief to victims of the Haiti disaster. It is one of many aid agencies on the ground providing specialist help. For more info see: www.msf.ie

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  • A 12-year-old girl undergoes a leg amputation by MSF surgeons after part of her leg was cut by debris and gangrene started - Choscal, Haiti
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    A 12-year-old girl undergoes a leg amputation by MSF surgeons after part of her leg was cut by debris and gangrene started - Choscal, Haiti

  • Some MSF reinforcement teams arrived in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and then drove into Haiti to avoid the bottleneck at the capital's airport
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    Some MSF reinforcement teams arrived in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and then drove into Haiti to avoid the bottleneck at the capital's airport

  • A makeshift surgery area outside the building of the Carrefour hospital - Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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    A makeshift surgery area outside the building of the Carrefour hospital - Port-au-Prince, Haiti

  • MSF emergency teams are planning mobile clinics to reach those affected outside of the capital
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    MSF emergency teams are planning mobile clinics to reach those affected outside of the capital

  • Trinite Hospital: MSF surgeons operating in a makeshift theatre in an old shipping container
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    Trinite Hospital: MSF surgeons operating in a makeshift theatre in an old shipping container

  • Burns ward in Martissant under a tent. Many people were burnt during the earthquake due to explosions or while cooking
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    Burns ward in Martissant under a tent. Many people were burnt during the earthquake due to explosions or while cooking

  • Lack of stretchers means that patients are brought in on boards, in wheelbarrows and on others' backs
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    Lack of stretchers means that patients are brought in on boards, in wheelbarrows and on others' backs

  • Collapsed building near Choscal Hospital
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    Collapsed building near Choscal Hospital

  • More than 1,000 patients have been treated in the Martissant hospital in the immediate days following the quake
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    More than 1,000 patients have been treated in the Martissant hospital in the immediate days following the quake

  • From lack of space, an MSF surgeon is working on a patient with a broken foot in the makeshift surgery room of the Martissant hospital, under the shade of a tree outside the hospital
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    From lack of space, an MSF surgeon is working on a patient with a broken foot in the makeshift surgery room of the Martissant hospital, under the shade of a tree outside the hospital