A 84-year-old Haitian woman was pulled from the rubble 10 days after Haiti’s killer earthquake, but a doctor treating her said she is in bad condition and may not survive.
Relatives of Marie Carida Romain say they freed her Friday from the ruins of her house. Yves Romain, a 58-year-old telephone technician, said he and his family were sleeping in front of the collapsed home when they heard moaning from inside and called neighbours for help. After 20 hours of digging with bare hands, he said, they freed his mother. The woman, looking skeletal and unconscious, was being treated at the capital’s General Hospital.
‘She is very thin. She is in a state of shock and severely dehydrated,’ said Dr. Louis Auguste, who works at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York. He said that while she had been buried for a long time, ‘there were always people who defy the norm.’
