It was a problem Lynn Gorton wasn’t supposed to deal with.
A Haitian woman was sitting in Ms. Gorton’s office at the U.S. Agency for International Development here, begging for her son’s life.
The 2-year-old was dying of a mysterious illness that was shutting down children’s kidneys. It already had claimed at least 50 victims…
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This afternoon, a surgical team with remove a grapefruit-sized tumor from the neck of Laury Joseph, who arrived in Toledo late Monday from Haiti.
Without surgery, the 2.5-year-old youngster’s chances of survival look slim, said one of her doctors. The soft, benign tumor pushes against her airway. As time passes, it will grow even more, making it more difficult for her to breathe.
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The families of 35 Haitian children poisoned by a contaminated painkiller filed suit yesterday in a U.S. District Court in Miami, alleging negligence by two European firms.
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Five Haitian children flown to the United States by a Toledo-area humaitarian organization for emergency medical care are well enough to return home.
The children were among more than 60 victims of a poisoning epidemic caused by tainted batches of Haitian-produced fever medicines.
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