Searching for Haiti baby Landina's family
Updated on 07 March 2010
When the devastating Haiti earthquake struck, baby Landina was already in hospital. She was pulled from the rubble and brought to the UK.
Baby Landina Seignon's arm was crushed when the Port-au-Prince hospital she was being treated in collapsed in the January earthquake.
The limb had to be amputated and she was eventually brought to Britain with life-threatening head injuries, after her plight was first reported by Inigo Gilmore for Channel 4 News.
She's already undergone one operation for burns to her scalp and still faces more surgery.
But doctors at Great Ormond Street say she is doing well.
Consultant surgeon David Nott said: "I'm absolutely thrilled, there's no infection, it's all healing beautifully.
"If she does really really well, I have a suspicion Haiti will do really well.
"Sometimes you have to focus on one person, or one thing, to make things happen."
Three-month-old Landina was the only quake survivor brought to Britain for treatment that she could not receive in her battered homeland.
Efforts to trace her family have so far failed, but Sarah Driver-Jowitt, from Facing the World, is leading the hunt.
She told Channel 4 News the charity is using contacts on Twitter to try to trace relatives, describing one online volunteer: "She's working very hard to try and draw links between missing family members and found and injured victims of the earthquake."
It is thought Landina's mother is called Naomi, but may have been killed in the quake.
Meanwhile, eight weeks on from the deadly tremor that killed 300,000 people, the Haitian government will this week produce a blueprint for the country's reconstruction.
