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Les Cayes, Aug 16 (EFE).- Hospitals here in the nearest city to the epicenter of the magnitude-7.2 earthquake that rocked southwestern Haiti's Tiburon peninsula over the weekend were stretched to their limits Monday.The death toll has reached 1,419, while at least 6,900 other people were hurt, according to the latest figures from the administration of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.At the General Hospital in Les Cayes, a city of roughly 100,000 residents, the flow of patients was so great that staff took to labeling them with numbers affixed to their foreheads. (Camera: MARIA MONTECELOS).SHOT LIST: PATIENTS OUTSIDE THE GENERAL HOSPITAL, IN LES CAYES, HAITI.

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