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Các băng đảng cố 'đánh sập' bệnh viện tồn tại sau dịch tả và Covid tại Haiti
23 Mar, 2024
bệnh viện ở thủ đô Haiti bị băng đảng cướp phá hoặc bị nhân viên bỏ rơi trong bối cảnh bạo lực. Một số còn mở nhưng quá nguy hiểm để tiếp cận người cần được chăm sóc
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Unlike many Haitians wounded by gunfire (xả súng) in the middle of a vicious gang takeover of the capital, Port-au-Prince, Ms. Cenatus was actually lucky that day — she made it to a clinic. But she is still in pain, her wound swelling (vết thương sưng tấy), and she cannot get any relief, with more and more hospitals and clinics abandoned by staff or looted by gangs.
A gang assault on Haiti’s capital has left an already weak health care system in tatters (hệ thống chăm sóc sức khỏe yếu kém).
More than half of the medical facilities in Port-au-Prince and a large rural region called Artibonite are closed or not operating at full capacity, experts said, because they are too dangerous to reach or their medicine and other supplies have been stolen (thuốc và vật dụng khác đã bị đánh cắp).
In a country where the United Nations estimates that up to one million people are facing the threat of famine (trước nguy cơ nạn đói), the unraveling of the medical infrastructure threatens to put thousands more lives at risk.
Even in periods of less upheaval, the public health system was already in shambles, but now hospitals run by humanitarian groups (nhóm nhân đạo) and churches that many Haitians depend on are closing one by one.
With violence rising in the surrounding neighborhood, the staff evacuated (nhân viên sơ tán) all of the patients to private hospitals (bệnh viện tư) in recent days, just before armed gang members overran nearby streets, ransacking and setting fire to several government buildings.
Two staff members, a nun and a chauffeur, were able to briefly enter the facility and reported seeing broken windows and empty rooms where furniture and medical equipment had been stolen. The privately run Roman Catholic hospital estimates the damage at $3 million to $4 million.
source: nytimes,
Tags: healthHồng Nhung
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