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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A University of Iowa doctor is among those helping with relief efforts in Haiti.
Dr. Chris Buresh has been traveling to Haiti for eight years. He's working near the epicenter of the Jan. 12 quake and working out of a makeshift clinic under plastic tarps.
In e-mails to his wife Ginny Buresh, who's also a doctor, he says he's nervous about performing surgery without proper anesthetics. But he also says there's a spirit of perseverance among survivors.
Aid officials say Haitians are fleeing the quake-ravaged capital by the hundreds of thousands. The government has promised to help nearly a half-million move from squalid camps into safer, cleaner tent cities.
Haiti's government estimates the quake killed 200,000 people. Approximately 250,000 people were injured.
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