While supply is becoming scarcer for MSF and other medical organisations, people face urgent medical and humanitarian needs. Those with chronic illnesses, such as tuberculosis and HIV, are at high risk of their conditions worsening due to lack of access to medical services and lifesaving medications. Unsanitary conditions in the numerous displacement sites spread across Port-au-Prince heighten the risk of waterborne diseases like cholera.
How are medical organisations coping with the challenges?
- The MSF hospital in Carrefour opened in March due to increased violence.
- Initially stocked for six months, supplies have dwindled rapidly.
- Medical coordinator Jean Baptiste Goasglas highlights the struggles in acquiring basic supplies.
What has been the impact of MSF projects in Haiti?
- 9,025 outpatient consultations provided in March and April.
- 4,966 urgent cases treated, including 869 bullet-wounded patients and 742 victims of traffic accidents.
- 99 severely burned patients admitted at the Tabarre hospital.
What urgent measures are needed amidst closing hospitals?
In the current state of emergency, as hospitals continue to close their doors and reduce services, authorities are urged to ease custom processes and facilitate safe transportation of materials to medical facilities for patient treatment.
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Source: www.msf.org