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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/foreign-teams-took-over-haiti-aid.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The earthquake in Haiti has been described as 'the biggest urban disaster' in modern history" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-foreign-teams-took-over-haiti-aid.jpg" alt="The earthquake in Haiti has been described as 'the biggest urban disaster' in modern history"/></a></p>
<p>International medical response teams staged a &#8220;takeover&#8221; after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, undermining the country&#8217;s own ability to provide healthcare, according to a report by a British charity.</p>
<p>While &#8220;welcome and vital&#8221;, few of the foreign aid agencies made use of local doctors and nurses and extensive health facilities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti&#8217;s capital, after the disaster, international health charity Merlin said. Having been at the forefront of saving lives in the initial aftermath, local health workers found themselves sidelined and undermined, Merlin said.</p>
<p>The charity said there had been a &#8220;brain drain&#8221; of Haitian healthcare workers into better paid jobs with international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), worsening the chronic shortage of healthcare workers in the country.</p>
<p>Free healthcare from INGOs has also &#8220;severely affected&#8221; the viability of many existing facilities which all relied to some extent on fees paid by patients, according to the report &#8211; entitled Is Haiti&#8217;s health system any better?</p>
<p>The charity, which provides training, equipment and medical experts to help in global emergencies, said there should be a more co-ordinated and &#8220;collaborative&#8221; approach to emergency responses.</p>
<p>There should also be long-term investment in health workers in &#8220;high-risk&#8221; countries such as Haiti to help them prepare for health crises, it said.</p>
<p>Paula Sansom, Merlin response team co-ordinator, said: &#8220;The international response to Haiti was incredible and saved thousands of lives.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have to build on this momentum and work together to ensure emergency responses not only save lives but help to leave behind a stronger health system.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is a collective responsibility for Haiti and the collective will is there to do things better.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Haiti earthquake, which struck one year ago, has been described as the &#8220;biggest urban disaster&#8221; in modern history. An estimated 230,000 people were killed in the magnitude-7.0 earthquake and more than 1.5 million were left homeless.</p>
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