Doctors Without Borders Closing 2 Hospitals in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Doctors Without Borders is closing two hospitals in Haiti’s capital opened by the aid group in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake that devastated much of the city, an official with the organization said Friday.
A 176-bed obstetrics hospital in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince will close in the coming days after some final patients are discharged and a hospital in the Tabarre area will close next year, said Michelle Chouinard, who heads the group’s mission in Haiti. Both facilities opened in the wake of the earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people and left the capital and much of southern Haiti in ruins. Both were intended to be temporary but were extended because of the medical needs in the impoverished country. “Given that the situation in Haiti is still difficult it was a very hard decision,” Chouinard said. Many poor people in the capital depend on the obstetrics hospital, which has treated about 500 patients a month. About 40,000 babies have been born there. Doctors Without Borders will continue to operate four clinics in Haiti, including one in Delmas that provides emergency medical care to victims of sexual and gender-based violence. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Fraud forces EDH to ration the power in Delmas
In a note dated Wednesday, Electricity of Haiti (EDH) recalls and regrets that since September 25, 2017 the power rationing has intensified in some areas of the commune of Delmas, including Delmas 33 until 75 and Delmas 32 until 50 explaining "This unfortunate situation that penalizes regular customers is due mainly to the bad behavior of certain residents conservatives and fraudsters who prevent the completion of the company's plan to repair all the grids in the area for setting up meters in order to better serve the population.The EDH appeals to the entire population and especially to the former committees responsible for theseneighborhoods to remedy this worrying situation which only worsens the already precarious conditions of distribution and marketing of electricity in the country. This will undoubtedly lead to a break with the old practices benefiting only a small group of the zone and hindering at the same time the evolution of the whole commune."By: HL/ HaitiLibre | September 28, 2017