Gunfire is part of daily life here in Cité Soleil – the most densely populated part of the Haitian capital and the heart of Port-au-Prince’s gang wars.
As gangs tighten their grip on Haiti, many medical facilities in the Caribbean nation’s most violent areas have closed, leaving Fontaine as one of the last hospitals and social institutions in one of the world’s most lawless places.Fontaine can mean the difference between life and death for hundreds of thousands of people just trying to survive, and it offers a small oasis of calm in a city that has descended into chaos.
The danger in the streets complicates everything: When gangsters with bullet wounds show up at the gates, doctors ask them to check their automatic weapons at the door as if they were coats. Doctors cannot return safely to homes in areas controlled by rival gangs and must live in hospital dormitories. Patients who are too scared to seek basic care due to the violence arrive in increasingly dire condition.
meganjanetsky FernandaPesce_ Pray for Haiti mon Cheri.
meganjanetsky FernandaPesce_ 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 Will Haiti ever recover
meganjanetsky FernandaPesce_ Where’d all the Clinton Foundation $ for Haiti go?
meganjanetsky FernandaPesce_ World leader's from around the world need to resolve this problem and fast Dominican republic is in danger at the boarder's and at risk of a civil war this the Haitian gangs that claim the territory of the Dominican republic belongs to them.
meganjanetsky FernandaPesce_ Reminder that Haiti is 400 miles away from American soil, and our priorities are set on sending billions of dollars to fund a war on the opposite side of the planet
meganjanetsky FernandaPesce_ I wish Haiti could find peace with itself, for too long it has suffered, gang war will never solve Haiti's problems, the island could have so much to offer if only the gangs did not rule..
meganjanetsky FernandaPesce_ I was wondering where Fontaine Hospital was in the US until I saw the country mentioned.
meganjanetsky FernandaPesce_ There is no gangs in Haiti ..you're fake news covering up for the psychopaths in power
meganjanetsky FernandaPesce_ Haiti needs someone to colonize it and make things right. Can’t have that much suffering.
meganjanetsky FernandaPesce_ Only in ameri..... nevermind
meganjanetsky FernandaPesce_ If we don't stop tolerating lawlessness in this country, it's going to come here
Only in Haiti exists a variety of anturiums, a rosy pink, that is so silky in the mountains of Kenscoff. My friends had to move out incognito. Lest they c u moving. On her wall a magnificent painting detailing the beauty of the Valley of Artibonite. Haiti is beautiful. my home!
Haiti deserves what it gets. Got history?
i have lived it & realized there was an order i do not recognize but in 'filigrane 'sort of. i lived it & on the back of a moto i visited while using my instinct as sole 'boussole' to guide me. a pic with a cell is a threat. the nation is on hold. everybody is armed to the teeth.