CDC Medical Response Teams In Haiti ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - One of the first disaster teams deployed from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention has returned from Haiti.
Performing surgeries, setting fractures and treatment of other illnesses were the main services they provided.
As WABE's Rose Scott reports the unit literally hits the ground running:

They are called the Incidence Response Command Team basically doctors, nurses and others who set up field hospitals and immediately began treating patients.
Dave Daigle is with the communications team that also traveled to Haiti .
He's says it amazing how quickly the unit sets up:

Daigle ((they can literally setup and start treating patients within an half hour of arriving on site they get enough of the truck to start triaging and seeing patients and with it will all be setup and then they go 24/7 they'll have two different shifts going))

There were 5 field hospitals and a surgical team.
Daigle says most of the injuries were compound fractures and the medical team dealt with those needing medicine for chronic diseases such as diabetes.
With 35 medical personnel and over a two week period...Diagle has a final report on how many earthquake victims were treated:

Daigle ((they had seen more than 17-thousand patients; they had done 56 surgeries and delivered 23 babies))
Another medical unit has already left for Haiti and Daigle says the CDC will continue to send more Teams.
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