Five months after a 7.0 quake reduced much of the city to rubble, CDTI's sophisticated equipment – a CT scanner and a suite of digital X-ray machines – sits idle in the country's most modern operating rooms.
Boxes of donated medical supplies clog hallways, where in the macabre days after the quake, doctors with scalpels and saws performed dozens of guillotine amputations.
"I gave everything," Savain said. "I turned the hospital over to the Americans and some of these big NGOs [nongovernmental organizations such as the American Red Cross] because they said they had money and they would help me.
"But nobody gave me a dime."
After three months without paying his 177 employees, Savain, by Haitian law, had to make a decision: either pay up or fire them. He closed the doors March 31.Collapses
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