Police officer hopes to return to duty

DESCHAPELLES, Haiti -- Joubert Pognon, 46, works as a policeman at the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, but he wasn't on the job when the earthquake struck. Instead, Pognon was in the parking lot of his three-level apartment building, where falling debris trapped him.

He spent three days stuck in a sprawling, awkward position, not quite lying, not quite standing, with his crushed left arm pinned above his head. By the time rescuers reached him, it was too late to save the limb.

He's now a patient at the prosthetics clinic at Hopital Albert Schweitzer and is waiting for an advanced artificial arm to arrive from the United States so that he can go back to work. Pognon says he's grateful he didn't lose his right arm, because he's right-handed and will still be able to shoot a gun. Like many earthquake victims, Pognon says he didn't panic during the ordeal. "I believe in God," he said.