The courtyard of the Ofatma hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, is a scene of abject misery right now. 

People wait with arms that were crushed under cinder blocks, heads gashed open by a falling wall. There’s children, with skin torn from their bodies, screaming in pain as someone tries to dress the wound. 

All are waiting for treatment.

Dr. Edouard Destine has been working nearly non-stop since the 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the country’s southwest on Saturday morning, killing more than 2,000 people and injuring some 12,000 others. He looks dazed as he wraps a cast onto a woman’s broken arm.

It’s