AAP News Vol. 3 No. 2 February 1987, p. 2
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Quake destroys major equipment in pediatric unit

When an earthquake struck San Salvador last fall, one of the casualties was the Benjamin Bloom Pediatric Hospital, which sat directly over the fault line.

The nine-story, 400-bed hospital provided pediatric tertiary care for all of El Salvador and had the only organized pediatric residency program in the country according to Lynn Silver, M.D., a Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Fellow.

"The prolonged state of war, the disruption of the economy and the generation of large numbers of internal refugees had already placed a great burden on the hospital, when, on October 10, an earthquake struck which devastated the physical plant of the hospital at the moment when its services were most desperately needed," states a PAHO letter to the Academy. "Its nine-story building with 400 beds...was severely damaged and sunken."