Port-au-Prince has some difficulties right now. One sad thing happening is the strike going on at the State General Hospital. Everyone at the hospital is on strike because they want the administrator to be removed. The spray painted graffitti transated reads "Tampson the 2 legged cat". I asked Amos the significance of a 2 legged cat and he said it means "thief".
This sign reads "Is working in public health equal to hell and misery?" Working there is not hell and misery, but the strike has been misery for the people stuck on their beds in the emergency room One woman basically rotted to death from an infected toe that spread into an infected leg. The gangrene killed her. The people on strike are responsible for her death. I wish that this fact was in the press. There are still about a dozen patients waiting in emergency hoping for an end to the strike. Pray for the patients who are the only ones in misery and that the strike gets settled.
At the hospital we smelled the aroma of burning tires. The students from the Ethnologie faculty of the State University have been protesting for the last week asking for the government to address problems of criminal activity in the Champ de Mars area. 2 students have been shot and killed and another student shot a couple of times last week. In anger the students have set up burning tires asking for justice.
Vehicles attempting to drive around the dumpster barricade and burning tires risked getting pelted with bottles and rocks. Pedestrian traffic was the only activity on the street.
The large tent camp on the Champ Mars in front of the National Palace is the source of the problems. Gangs inhabit some of the tarp/shelters and use them as hiding areas to conduct illegal activities. Around 20,000 refugees live on the Champ Mars in the shelters.
Port-au-Prince has some difficulties right now. One sad thing happening is the strike going on at the State General Hospital. Everyone at the hospital is on strike because they want the administrator to be removed. The spray painted graffitti transated reads "Tampson the 2 legged cat". I asked Amos the significance of a 2 legged cat and he said it means "thief".
This sign reads "Is working in public health equal to hell and misery?" Working there is not hell and misery, but the strike has been misery for the people stuck on their beds in the emergency room One woman basically rotted to death from an infected toe that spread into an infected leg. The gangrene killed her. The people on strike are responsible for her death. I wish that this fact was in the press. There are still about a dozen patients waiting in emergency hoping for an end to the strike. Pray for the patients who are the only ones in misery and that the strike gets settled.
At the hospital we smelled the aroma of burning tires. The students from the Ethnologie faculty of the State University have been protesting for the last week asking for the government to address problems of criminal activity in the Champ de Mars area. 2 students have been shot and killed and another student shot a couple of times last week. In anger the students have set up burning tires asking for justice.
Vehicles attempting to drive around the dumpster barricade and burning tires risked getting pelted with bottles and rocks. Pedestrian traffic was the only activity on the street.
The large tent camp on the Champ Mars in front of the National Palace is the source of the problems. Gangs inhabit some of the tarp/shelters and use them as hiding areas to conduct illegal activities. Around 20,000 refugees live on the Champ Mars in the shelters.
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