The kidnapping by gangs of two doctors in the capital, including one of the few trained orthopaedic surgeons in Haiti, has added to the strain. At Les Cayes airport, helicopters ferried the injured to the capital, Port-au-Prince. Many hospitals remained saturated in the worst-hit areas of Haiti. Some 332 people are still missing, while 12,200 people were injured, authorities said. “We are all absolutely overwhelmed,” Prime Minister Ariel Henry said in a meeting with the Organization of American States on Friday. “Every commune, every city, every village in that area was very hard hit.”Ī powerful storm that hit Haiti earlier this week, triggering landslides, has also made it harder to find victims of last Saturday’s quake, which destroyed tens of thousands of homes and killed at least 2,189 people. It was pitched into political instability by the assassination on July 7 of President Jovenel Moise, by what authorities say was a group of Colombian and American mercenaries. The poorest country in the Americas, Haiti is still recovering from a 2010 quake that killed more than 200,000 people. Project Hope was attempting to deliver food and medicine by helicopter to rural areas, Hamadeh said. Landslides and cracks in the tarmac on the main inland mountain road between Les Cayes and Jeremie to its northwest, two of the hardest hit urban areas, made it harder to dispatch aid to farming communities short of food and drinkable water. There isn’t enough medication, medical supplies or even human resources,” said Hamadeh.ĭamaged or impassable roads hindered efforts to deliver aid to remote parts of Haiti as hopes of finding those still missing faded. Patients are being housed outside in tents because the hospital in Les Cayes where she is working was damaged by the earthquake, Hamadeh told Al Jazeera on Friday. There’s a lot of trauma, limb fractures and traumatic injuries in most of the patients,” said Rawan Hamadeh, a healthcare professional with Project Hope’s emergency response team in the southwestern city of Les Cayes. There’s a huge influx of patients that are coming in.
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