Man believed to have been buried under rubble for 28 days' found alive in Haiti

A 28 year-old man, found alive under the rubble of a building in Haiti's capital, may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of Port-au-Prince.
Doctors in Port-au-Prince have reported that a 28-year-old Haitian man, rescued on Monday, may have survived under the rubble for almost 28 days after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital on January 12.
The man has been identified as 28-year-old Evan Municie and he is currently being cared for at the University of Miami Field Hospital in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
People who brought Municie to the hospital said they found him while digging at the site of a market.
“He was dehydrated and quite sick. So we evaluated him and gave him IV fluids. We checked the labs and decided to transfer the patient to the intensive care unit. He's now doing reasonably well,” Dr.Dushyantha Jayaweera told reporters.
The doctor, however, could not confirm or deny how long the man had been trapped under the rubble. “It can happen. It’s unusual but not impossible,” Jayaweera said.
The earthquake killed more than two hundred thousand people and rescuers have managed to pull just approximately one hundred and thirty survivors from the rubble. Official rescue operations in Haiti ended over two weeks ago.

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