Rehabilitation in Rural Haiti (The Takeaway)

UN special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, has urged international aid groups to help rebuild Haiti's government yesterday. But as Takeaway producer Anna Sale reports, some Haitians don't think their government should be trusted with the job. Read Anna's latest blog post, Stumbling Through Creole and Hymns in an Earthquake Tent.

After the earthquake, injured Haitians flooded the hospital. Now, some of them are cured, but like the 700,000 other homeless Haitians, they have nowhere to go. So they turn to their doctors for help, adding to the overstretched workload of the medical staff. Takeaway producer, Anna Sale has been reporting from Haiti, where she’s accompanying a medical mission to a rural hospital 75 miles from Port-au-Prince.

On Monday, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush visited Haiti. All this week, Takeaway producer Anna Sale is also in the country, but at a rural hospital 75 miles away from Port-au-Prince. Today, she reports on the journey of 17-year-old Joseph Maxon, who spent his day navigating through Haiti's bureaucracy in search of a birth certificate. The hospital continues to treat patients injured in the January 12 earthquake. Those injured are starting to heal, but as we reported yesterday, that's opening up sets of challenges for the patients who have no home to return to when their treatment is complete. UPDATE: After a paperwork chase, Joseph received a birth certificate the day after this story aired.

Takeaway Producer Anna Sale is in Haiti on a medical mission, and sending reports back to us - her most recent email sent these photos and song. As Anna described them: Pictures and sound from the Catholic church service in Milot. Everyone was dressed to the nines and every bench in the huge, domed church was full.

Takeaway producer Anna Sale is accompanying a medical mission in Haiti. At a hospital in Milot, 75 miles north of Port-au-Prince, many of the injured have been transferred from the capital. For some of the patients there, the biggest fear comes at the prospect of leaving. And to keep up the spirits of patients, the hospital held a therapeutic dance party. Check out her slideshow, below. There were girls in crutches and other injuries dancing.  The nurses put on the music, and everyone came out of the tents to dance. People in wheelchairs and crutches.] Read Anna's daily dispatches from Milot.    Hear sound of the hospital dance party: