RePortersNoteBook.com: Was this box of corneas sent to Haiti like Elizabeth Cohen of CNN claims, or were they harvested there?

January 28, 2010

Dear friend,

OK. I was skeptical about Israelis harvesting organs from Haitians, even though possibly those very same doctors lionized in the American media have been murdering and cutting up Palestinians youths for their organs for years. (Incredibly, the Israeli government has admitted to murdering Palestinians for organs but say they have stopped.) And then a correspondent sends me this....

Was this box of corneas sent to Haiti like Elizabeth Cohen of CNN claims, or were they harvested there? No follow-up on this odd story.

http://www.asylum.com/2010/01/19/cnn-finds-box-of-corneas-in-haiti/

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There I find this

Jan 19th 2010 By Tommy Christopher

CNN Finds Box of Corneas in Haiti [http://www.asylum.com/2010/01/19/cnn-finds-box-of-corneas-in-haiti/]

In the week since the devastating earthquake in Haiti, we've seen stories of tragedy (far too many), triumph (too few, but also amazing) and ugliness, but today, we caught the closest thing to a funny moment amid the human drama. In this report from a field hospital in Port au Prince, CNN's correspondent Elizabeth Cohen talks about the amazing things being done by surgeons under the most difficult of circumstances. Then, to illustrate the point that they need the right kind of supplies, she picks up a box of human corneas that she found "under a table next to a box of granola bars," and waves it around. See the video after the jump, and click here to find out how to help. (video from Mediaite TV)

... and I follow the link to medical-news hound Elizabeth Cohen:

http://videos.mediaite.com/video/CNN-Reporter-Finds-Box-of-Corne [yes, it is truncated]

And there Cohen is, waving around a box of corneas she found hidden under a table, next to a box of Granola.

Now, were the corneas harvested outside Haiti for deserving Haitians, or were they harvested from recently dead Haitians? It is a dirty little secret of relief aid that drug companies dump expired or useless products into aid shipments for the tax write-offs (like diet products or contact lens solution that were sent to famine victims in Sudan a few years ago). Naturally, no one in the news business cares to find out where these corneas came from and there will never be a followup news story.

Peace.

Michael Santomauro
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