In Haiti, escalating gang violence has led to a severe crisis in the healthcare sector, with hospitals facing shortages of medicines, medical products, and essential supplies. The situation has been exacerbated by gangs pillaging private companies, particularly medical facilities, and attacking strategic infrastructure and public institutions. This has resulted in hospital closures and a shortage of hospital beds and blood products. Representatives from Haiti and other countries addressed the UN Security Council, highlighting the unprecedented wave of violence and its impact on the country's authority and healthcare system. International bodies, including the heads of BINUH_UN, UNICEF, and UNODC, have called for increased international support to address the intensifying gang violence and the accompanying humanitarian crisis. Additionally, 19 police officers have died or been injured, and 22 police stations have been ransacked by armed groups.
Haiti's health system teeters on the brink amid gang violence and supply shortages https://t.co/24k9V8bSnu https://t.co/EMFiD7ctnj
Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals, and ports stay shut https://t.co/ONqQhoXguc
Haiti’s health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports remain shuttered: “Everything is crashing” https://t.co/eCjat7ZRBu
Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports stay shut (from @AP) By @danicacoto https://t.co/VUtSBjxtyQ
Haiti needs to abandon its status as an independent nation, and accept foreign rule. Maybe France would be willing to take over. = = = = = = = = Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports stay shut https://t.co/oPgS6r3pkw
Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports stay shut https://t.co/wRZoFj9Q07 https://t.co/zpEE7jAdeC
Haiti’s healthcare nears collapse amid violence as hospitals shutter, medicine dwindles https://t.co/cKjMScHB7n
Haiti: It's impossible to overstate the increase in gang activity, the deterioration of the human rights situation & the deepening of the humanitarian crisis, head of @BINUH_UN tells Security Council, calling for urgent funding & security support. https://t.co/6m8R8gfyxx https://t.co/wBZUppD89t
Briefing the Security Council on Monday, the heads of @BINUH_UN, @UNICEF and @UNODC called for greater international support for Haiti as gang violence intensifies. https://t.co/Me2NyGu3Ax
Armed gangs are continuing to systematically pillage private companies, in particular medical ones. This has resulted in a serious shortage of medicines and medical products, hospital beds and blood products, #Haiti's rep to @UN tells Security Council.
19 @pnh_officiel officers died or injured during recent attacks; 22 police stations/buildings ransacked, taken over by armed groups, Haiti's rep to @UN tells Security Council.
China's rep to the @UN Security Council: "A multi pronged approach is needed to crack down on gangs at the source." #Haiti
France's rep on @UN to Security Council: "Wave of violence unleashed by gangs since the end of February is unprecedented ....In targeting strategic infrastructure and public institutions, it is the very authority of the state which is being attacked in the face of this violence."
#FromTheSouth News Bits | Haiti's healthcare system is facing unprecedented chaos as a result of the violence of armed gangs, which have not excluded hospitals and pharmacies from their targets, destroying, looting, and burning them as part of their strategy of terror. https://t.co/8HL2T8elrW
#FromTheSouth News Bits | Haiti's Health System is near collapse as criminal gangs continue to attack and take control of hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies. https://t.co/rU3xyvbVMs