Ambulance followed the crowd during carnival celebration on Mardi Gras health officuals are reyling on services like this one as the main hospital HUEH is not receiving patients
Ambulance followed the crowd during carnival celebration on Mardi Gras health officuals are reyling on services like this one as the main hospital HUEH is not receiving patients

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A weeks-long strike by doctors at Haiti’s public hospital that began in January has led Haiti’s University Hospital (HUEH) officials to clear its facilities of patients. Facing a carnival period that usually brings a rise in injuries, officials plan to divert injured revelers to other care facilities.

“The hospital has had no patients since January,” said Yveline Michel, a medical resident and strike organizer, during a Feb. 18 phone interview with The Haitian Times.

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Haiti’s University Hospital, HUEH, has been closed for two months and is unable to provide care during carnival festivities, a period that sees a rise in medical emergencies.

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Murdith Joseph is a social worker and journalist. She studied at the State University of Haiti and Maurice Communication. She first worked as a journalist presenter and reporter for Radio Sans Fin (RSF) then as a journalist reporter for Radio tele pacific and writting for the daily Le National. Today she joined the Haitian Times team and covers the news in Port-Au-Prince-Haiti.