VICKI GOODMAN [above] with ‘my litde babe Marlo” —typicel of the scores of Guatemalan children treated at the Comala
hospital [Colin Jackson photo]. Guatemala [map top right} is approximately one-ninth the size of British Columbia.

A year ago this Friday,
three o'clock in the morning, one of the worst
earthquakes | of the century’ struck the sleeping
Central. American. country of Guatemala. It left
26.000 dead, 85. 000. injured and a’ million people

homeless.

Today, twelve months. later, as the shattered
“towns and villages are gradually rebuilt, medical
care for the thousands of maimed and sick victims
of the disaster is still the major human problem.

Among. the

hundreds

volunteers helping to cope with this problem were
two young West Vancouver residents who recently
returned home and, last week, told it like it is.

Both in their mid-twenties
and former Hillside students
Colin Jackson and Victoria
(Vicki) Goodman, a_ free
lance photographer, had set
out ‘earlier last year to
explore. Mexico and its

neighboring Latin couritries

for a number of months
After visiting the Yucatan
and British Honduras, they
arrived in Guatemala City on
August 21.

. They stayed for a week or
two with American friends at
a nearby lake resort. They
lost Colin’s passport and
Vicki's camera to thieves
while shopping in a crowded
street in Quezaltenango,
Guatemala’s second largest
city. That same evening they
met a group of | American
volunteers on leave from the
field hospital at Comalapa,
heard their story and decided
there and then to join them.

5,000 KILLED

Comalapa, a rural town of
20.000 high in the mountains
some 40-50 miles northwest
of Guatemala City via dirt
roads, had been reduced to a
pile of rubble. Five thousand
people -- one-fifth of its
population, which ,is 95 per
cent Indian -- had been
killed. It was the worst
devastated community in the
country.

’*Most of the injuries were
broken bones and damaged
limbs, because the adobe
brick houses simply caved in
on the people sleeping in
them,”"’ explained Vicki.
‘Hundreds of little children
were left without parents and
were taken in by neighbors.

W. Vancouverites help out - :

the catastrophe it had a
50-bed field | hospital set up in
Comalapa | in a large tent,
manned by American doc-
tors, nurses and technicians
with medical .supplies and
equipment. Three months
later. the hospital was _ re-
located in the wing of a
schoolhouse which had es:
_caped destruction. :

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By NOEL WRIGHT.
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IN BAD SHAPE

In September. when Colin ~
and Vicki began their: stint,
there was a total staff of
about 20, including a couple
of doctors and 17 -or. 18
‘nurses, paramedics and’ vo-.
lunteer: assistants. The 15
beds, to which the hospital
had meanwhile been reduc-
ed, were. filled almost con-
tinuously, and up to 90
out-patients were being
treated daily.

of North American

At the. time there were no
Guatamalan medical services ~
available beyond penicillin
injections... people needing
surgery would have to travel
four hours by bus to Antigua
or Guatemala City."*

‘‘Much of it was bandage
dressings,"’ said Colin. Peo-
ple would put off coming in.
and when they did they were
often in bad shape ...infec-
tions, gangrene and so on...
due to sanitation problems."’

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important jobs was to act. as.

interpreter for the medicai
staff.

Vicki, who had some

first-aid training, found her-

self setting bones, attending

‘to patients in body. casts and -
delivering babies. ‘*But the

big problem,”’ she said,
acute malnutrition and diarr-

hea among tiny children. It’s:

really a problem for many of

them to make it to the. age of 7
child: isn't
even given a.name until it’s

two... why, the

one year, old. **

FIN GER DOWN THROAT

One of the ‘many incidents
they remember was a 24-day:
old baby who couldn't.
breathe without assistance.
For four days and nights they’
took turns at being constant-
ly with him... “‘poking my.
finger down his throat to
clear the blockage,”’ explain-

ed Colin. After that the baby
had apparently had enough
and started breathing nor-
mally on his own. .

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