The international organization reported on the risks that the shortage of this product represents for the population.
The organization Doctors without Borders (MSF) indicated that the shortage of fuel, public transport and drinking water in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, as well as in other localities, is putting medical care in the country at risk, including the places that are manages.
For this reason, he called on the international community to make urgent deliveries of fuel to health facilities in Port-au-Prince, such as the organization’s trauma and burn hospital. In addition, the Tabarre hospital and the MSF emergency center in Turgeau will run out of fuel for the hospital’s generators in three weeks unless new supplies are delivered. While at the MSF emergency center in Cité Soleil it will be sold out in two and a half weeks.
“Medical facilities in Port-au-Prince face the same challenges: they have no fuel, no electricity, no medical care … We all need to have regular fuel deliveries,” said Jean-Gilbert Ndong, MSF medical coordinator.
All this occurs while tensions and armed conflict increase in the capital.
Given the situation, several of its centers have chosen to reduce their medical activities since last week to treat only patients with life-threatening conditions.
Referrals have also been complicated, as other hospitals have already turned away several of their patients for lack of fuel for their operations.
“The fuel shortage is affecting other essential goods and services. Food prices have risen sharply and the water supply is in jeopardy. Haiti’s national water agency, Dinepa, announced Sunday that it lacks the fuel to continue pumping drinking water to many areas of the capital. More than 265,000 people live in Cité Soleil, one of the areas facing water shortages, according to official figures, ”reports MSF in a statement.
The problem of water is something very delicate, because this service is vital for medical facilities, and if it is not solved, there is most likely an increase in waterborne diseases and other urgent medical needs, as well as the risk for the facilities to close completely. (I)
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