History professor Lauren Robin Derby has returned from the
border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where rural
villages are feeling the trauma of the Jan. 12 earthquake. "None
of the medical aid is getting to them," she says. By Letisia
Marquez for the UCLA Newsroom THE DEVASTATING HAITIAN earthquake
that has killed more than 150,000 people has impacted even the
most remote areas of the Caribbean island Haiti shares with the
Dominican Republic, according to Lauren Robin Derby, a UCLA
history professor who recently returned from the border between
the two countries. Even the smallest rural clinics in the
Dominican Republic are treating dozens of Haitian earthquake
victims, often without the equipment and medications necessary
to treat such serious injuries as broken limbs, she said. "None
of the medical aid is getting to them," said Derby, who spoke
this week to a UCLA Latin American studies class about her
recent trip to the border area. "I interviewed one man, Carlos
Jeune, who pleaded with me to ge