Haiti needs continued support from foreign health professionals.

摘要

Haiti's fragile health care system collapsed along with the rest of Port au Prince-after a massive earthquake stack the island nation on January 12, 2010. Although health care resources were severely limited before the earthquake, the lack of human resources may now be Haiti's largest obstacle to providing basic care, particularly to its impoverished capital city of 3 million people, where the quake was centered. Large numbers of foreign health professionals are needed to supplement Haiti's health care worker shortage in the short term, and massive training of native health care workers is essential to improving long-term community health, as demonstrated by Perry et al.