Foreign hospitals help quake-damaged health system (AP)

A boy reacts as he is vaccinated in Constitucion, Chile, Friday, March 5, 2010. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck central Chile last Feb. 27, causing widespread damage.(AP Photo/ Roberto Candia)AP – Chile launched a hepatitis and tetanus vaccination campaign Friday and doctors warned of outbreaks of diarrhea and infection among thousands of people displaced by the earthquake and the tsunami that heavily damaged or destroyed 36 hospitals and made garbage dumps of coastal towns and cities.


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