Japan medical staff face limits treating Haiti quake victims

LEOGANE, Haiti - Members of Japan's emergency relief medical team tend to a wounded quake victim, who later died in spite of treatment, in Leogane, Haiti, Jan. 18, 2010. Medical staff fought severe shortages in assistance and supplies as they treated gravely injured people who poured into a makeshift clinic a week after the devastating earthquake hit the country.

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