Ill Haitian children airlifted to US

DOCTORS skirted a bureaucratic logjam to save the life of two critically ill child victims of Haiti’s earthquake yesterday, flying them to US hospitals on a private jet to avoid a military suspension of medical evacuation flights.

A five-year-old tetanus victim and a 14-month-old boy critically ill with pneumonia were sent to Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia by the aid group Partners in Health, based in Boston.

The airlift had been in doubt after the US military stopped medical evacuation flights on Wednesday night because of concerns hospitals would not accept the patients as federal and state officials debated who should pay for their care.