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Injured in Haiti quake at high risk of infection, amputation

Nurse Gabrielle Lagrenade, center, sleeps next to her daughter on the the side of the road in Les Cayes, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, nine days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake made her rental home unsafe to live in. Lagrenade, 52, describes her current living conditions simply as "inappropriate," but she continues arriving for her daily shift at the hospital. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2021 file photo, an earthquake victim who was airlifted from the city of Les Cayes, is moved to an ambulance by health workers, at the local terminal of the Toussaint Louverture airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File) FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2021 file photo, a bulldozer removes debris at the site of the collapsed Hotel Le Manguier in Les Cayes, Haiti, two days after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern part of the country. The Aug. 14 earthquake killed at least 2,207 and injured as many as 12,268 people. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2021 file photo, a woman injured in a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, is transferred on a mattress to a plane to be flown to Port-au-Prince, in Les Cayes, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. Haitians continue to show up at hospitals seeking care for injuries after an earthquake battered their country. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn, File) FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2021 file photo, residents gather outside the Petit Pas Hotel, destroyed by a 7.2 earthquake, in Les Cayes, Haiti. Haitians continue to show up at hospitals seeking care for injuries almost two weeks after an earthquake battered their country. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn, File) FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2021 file photo, a boy grimaces in pain, at the general hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, three days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern part of the nation. Haitians continue to show up at hospitals seeking care for injuries almost two weeks after an earthquake battered their country. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2021 file photo, residents injured in the 7.2 magnitude earthquake, recover at the general hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti. Haitians continue to show up at hospitals seeking care for injuries almost two weeks after an earthquake battered their country. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn, File) FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2021 file photo, people injured in the Aug. 14th, 7.2 magnitude earthquake, lie on hospital beds in the courtyard of the hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn, File) Robenson Perjuste, 15, whose leg was amputated after he was injured in the Aug. 14th, 7.2 magnitude earthquake, lies in a bed at the general hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)