Following a discomfort occurred in the night from Sunday to Monday, a girl of about 3 years died for lack of care at the Hospital of the State University of Haiti (HUEH) where she was taken by her parents, Monday morning early.

Its highly experienced parents say their child has agonized for several hours before died around 10:00 in the morning, without the intervention of a medical resident, on strike since 28 March in a most public hospitals. They are convinced that the intervention of a doctor would have saved the life of their child.

This is the second victim of the strike, after the death of a woman in front of the gates of May 4 last HUEH in the absence of medical assistance, close to striking resident doctors https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17361-haiti-health-irresponsible-strike-in-hospitals.html https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-17381-icihaiti-health-strike-in-public-hospitals-paho-who-reactions.html

Medical residents are standing their ground, demanding among other considerable increases in wages, which would increase their monthly income from 7,000 to 80,000 Gourdes, of demands that the government can not meet for lack of funds in an already difficult economic environment.

On 11 and 12 May, the Ministry of Health, had made deliver medicine, equipment and inputs in public hospitals in order to promote their re-opening, as demanded strikers residents, without obtaining the lifting of the strike that takes the lives of patients in hostage. https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-17435-icihaiti-flash-delivery-of-medicines-inputs-and-materials-to-the-hueh.html

According to our sources medical residents will even oppose at the arrival of other doctors to provide emergency cell.

For his part, President a.i. Jocelerme Privert has spoken cautiously last week on this strike that continues, stressing that the resolution of the problem fell within the authorities concerned. As Head of State, the guarantor of the proper functioning of institutions, it will intervene only in case of failure of the authorities to resolve conflict...

See also :

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-17435-icihaiti-flash-delivery-of-medicines-inputs-and-materials-to-the-hueh.html

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-17381-icihaiti-health-strike-in-public-hospitals-paho-who-reactions.html

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-17402-icihaiti-health-sit-in-of-dissatisfied-citizens-front-hueh.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17361-haiti-health-irresponsible-strike-in-hospitals.html

SL/ HaitiLibre