As the sun set on a stifling Port-au-Prince day in August 2021, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter landed beside two others on the tarmac at the airport in the Haitian capital. On board the chopper with our Canadian Medical Assistance Teams (CMAT) advanced care paramedic were three critically injured patients airlifted from Les Cayes, a small city which was closest to the epicentre of the latest earthquake to strike the impoverished nation. With the helicopter blades whirling overhead, and ambulance lights flashing around us, the ground teams rushed to move the patients to stretchers, and into the open-air, makeshift triage area we had established in a corner of the tarmac.   A woman was of...