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AMDA Haiti carries out relief activities for IDPs
Publication date:2025-01-29
On 13 December 2024, AMDA Haiti organized medical relief activities at one of the biggest evacuation camps for internally displaced people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital.To ensure safety, the relief work was conducted under the watchful eye of the nation’s interim ministry in response to the growing need for humanitarian assistance. Dr. Mac Keven Fredric, who heads AMDA Haiti, and five other aid workers (one doctor, one nurse, two medical assistants, and one coordinator) provided patient consultations and medication to those in need.
Haiti has been politically destabilized since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021. Coupled with the extent of past natural disasters such as the catastrophic 2010 earthquake and numerous hurricanes, the country’s security situation has been deteriorating, in which armed criminal gangs have been gaining control over the nation’s capital and major cities. Fleeing the violence, more than 700,000 people have sought refuge in evacuation camps set up by the authorities in various locations.
Especially in Port-au-Prince, indiscriminate attacks on citizens, robbery, kidnapping, and murder committed by criminal gangs have led to a breakdown in the rule of law. Furthermore, children have been deprived of their right to education as gangs have been taking hold of schools.On the day of the outreach, the AMDA Haiti team saw a total of 165 adults and 24 children whose ailments had been left untreated. Symptoms including headaches, gastric pain, fever, hypertension, infections, asthma, and diabetes were prevalent among adults. Many of the children were suffering from diarrhoea, common cold, malnutrition, skin rashes, and infections. It was reported that there were suspected cases of mental illness as well.
Because foreign aid organizations have been withdrawing from Haiti due to the nation’s worsening security situation, continued international assistance has been urgently needed. - GPSP Medical Mission (Promotion of Health)
- Haiti
- 2024
- GPSP
