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Haiti - Social : Health professionals take street
31/10/2019 10:11:47

Haiti - Social : Health professionals take street
Wednesday, after artists, religious, academics, police, workers, more than a hundred health professionals (doctors, nurses, midwives, laboratory technicians, paramedics, pharmacists etc...) demonstrated at Port-au-Prince, most in white coats, to demand an improvement in the health system that does not allow all citizens of the country to have access to health care, better working conditions and a revaluation of their salary of nearly 200%, alongside the protesters of the political opposition who have been demanding for 7 weeks the resignation of President Moïse...

The demonstration of health professionals, which took place without major incident, began around 10:00 am at St Honoré Street, in front of the State University Hospital of Haiti (UEH), before continuing on the Champ-de-Mars, rue Capois, avenue Jean Paul II, Lalue, to return to the UEH.

A higher health budget, pharmacies in hospitals, access to health for all, were some of the messages seen on posters of protesters "We lack of compresses, gloves, syringes, drugs..." said a medical demonstrator who reviewed the lack of inputs in hospitals... comparing the conditions of practice of his profession as being worse than a war medicine...

Professor Dr. Barthélémy Guibert at the Faculty of Medicine of Port-au-Prince recalls that every year in Haiti, a hundred doctors are graduates, but that nearly 90% leave Haiti to other countries to find a job well paid and make their families live conclusively "The greatest misfortune that can happen to a country is the departure of its human resources [...]"

HL/ HaitiLibre

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