prosthetic here. this is what so many people here in haiti have been wanting. they have been waiting for because so many amputations were performed. mildred is a success here because he no only received immediate acute care but because there are resources for his recovery and followup. it is so important. but here it is way too rare. it is about the money. there s never enough. aid organizations tell us they are saving so much of it for the long term. in the meantime, hospitals are dying and so are patients. this little girl has been left here to die. she had hydroself us will, too much watt other the brain. the shunt to drain the fluid became infected. there is nothing more they can do for her. she got the acute care but it is the same stupid story. six months later, she needed antibiotics she couldn t get.
she had too much watt other the brain. the shunt to drain the fluid became infected and now there is nothing more they can do for her. she got the acute care but it is the same stupid story. six months later she needed antibiotics she couldn t get and she will die. the money, one u.s. based charity, spent almost all of the money it spent from private donors. if they don t get a larger share of the public donations by september, that s it. this hospital shuts down. within a month and half you are saying the mondayins out? yes. reporter: we were sitting here talking, the three of you a few months ago, about this very issue. and said, you know, literally people were giving money, more than a billion dollars. they were giving all over the world. how does a place like this show the only critical care hospital in the country, how does it shut down if so much money was given? where s the money? we asked ourselves the same question.
good can come out of something bad, and that the hospitals could eventually start to build up and create a medical infrastructure in haiti and port-au-prince that they have never seen before. that was the hope. what s happened instead is that a lot of the hospitals that were up and running before the earthquake have now started to shut their doors. too much demand, too little supply, too few resources, not enough doctors. it is really incredible to see hospitals literally with changes on their doors now. there was a little girl that we saw at one of the hospitals that has a relatively simple problem. she has hydroreceive sephalis that is treated by a shunt. she developed an infection, an easily treatable problem, treating it with antibiotics. unfortunately because of the reasons earlier, she never got the antibiotics, and she is
resources but if you follow an arc it s come back down now. doctors have left. resources are hard to come by. so many that stifle in these warehouses and by customs, wolf. you re a neuro surgeon, sanjay. you saw this little girl. i know your instinct was to put on your surgical operation suit and just get to work. is there really nothing that can be done to save her at this state? reporter: you know, the thing is that her cerebral spinal fluid which is a fluid that surrounds her brain and her spinal cord has become completely infected. what you would typically do in a case like this is try and drain some of that fluid by putting a shunt in. some people may know what that is, essentially a catheter that goes into the fluid-filled spaces. the problem is the fluid is completely infected now, has essentially changed to a pus type fluid and it simply cannot be done. there is nothing that can help her at this point, putting in another foreign body will just aggravate the infection. it is
surgeon s office after he had just told us, stage 4 take your time. i said i wasn t going to do this. it s as bad as it gets. i will never forget before my wife and i were about to get in the car, i said, i can do this! she said, we can do this. amen! i decided that the best thing i could do was to treat her differently and not love her like i did because it wouldn t hurt as much if i lost her. this is a very close friend. he spent six years with the shunt in the back of his head. he today has a good heart, a good brain and is good at