Children separated from their parents also needed protection, she said. UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said humanitarian needs were acute, with many Haitians urgently needing health care, clean water and shelter. Haiti installs new leader as country mourns slain president.World Food Program plans to send in food supplies via trucks Tuesday. Agency spokeswoman Anna Jefferys said the first convoy passed through Sunday with government and U.N. The agency said the area has been “virtually unreachable” over the past two months because of road blocks and security concerns. The agency called Haiti’s southern peninsula a “hot spot for gang-related violence,” where humanitarian workers have been repeatedly attacked. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported. Underlining the dire conditions, local officials had to negotiate with gangs in the seaside district of Martissant to allow two humanitarian convoys a day to pass through the area, the U.N.
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Hospitals, schools, offices and churches also were destroyed or badly damaged. Officials said the magnitude 7.2 earthquake left more than 7,000 homes destroyed and nearly 5,000 damaged from the quake, leaving some 30,000 families homeless. None of the patients or relatives caring for them wore face masks amid a coronavirus surge. Others lay in the garden under bed sheets erected to shield them from the brutal sun. Nearby, on the hospital’s open-air veranda, patients were on beds and mattresses, hooked up to IV bags of saline fluid. Michelete said he would give one of his few remaining shots to Eliophane, who ran out of his house as the quake hit, only to have a wall fall on him. Others waited for money wired from abroad, a mainstay of Haiti’s economy even before the quake. Jean Moise Fortunè, whose brother, the hotel owner and a prominent politician, was killed in the quake, believed there were more people trapped in the rubble.īut based on the size of voids that workers cautiously peered into, perhaps a foot (0.3 metres) in depth, finding survivors appeared unlikely.Īs work, fuel and money ran out, desperate Les Cayes residents searched collapsed houses for scrap metal to sell. Meanwhile, rescuers and scrap metal scavengers dug into the floors of a collapsed hotel Monday in this coastal town, where 15 bodies had already been extracted. Paurus Michelete, who had treated 250 patients and was one of only three doctors on call when the quake hit. “After two days, they are almost always generally infected,” said Dr. Patients waited to be treated on stair steps, in corridors and the hospital’s open veranda. Injured earthquake victims continued to stream into Les Cayes’ overwhelmed general hospital, three days after the earthquake struck.