Earthquake in Haiti: "We must find, identify and bring out the isolated wounded"
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In the city of Les Cayes (Haiti), the inhabitants exhausted after the earthquake of August 14 and the passage of the storm Grace, August 17, 2021. © Fernando Llano / AP
By: Mayeule de Charon
22 mins
“
Aid to the population after the earthquake on Saturday (August 14, 2021) is complicated by the state of the roads,
” reports the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières.
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The situation in southern Haiti after the earthquake is critical,
" reports the NGO Médecins sans frontières. “
There are a lot of wounded in the three big cities in the south: Miragoâne, Jérémie and Les Cayes. The first wounded are well taken care of, but there is also a challenge in finding, identifying and removing the wounded who are isolated in the towns on the outskirts, ”
reports
Michel-Olivier Lacharité
, MSF emergency manager.
Many roads have been blocked due to landslides.
“
This is the case for the road that connects Les Cayes and Jérémie.
This is also the case in other villages.
Some towns or localities around Baradères are not accessible.
We are trying to do our best to reach these places either by car or by helicopter, but transporting patients is extremely difficult,
”adds
Michel-Olivier Lacharité
.
Haiti facing the tropical depression Grace
Haitians also suffered the consequences of the Grace depression on Tuesday, August 17, 2021. “
Les Cayes woke up with its feet in the water this morning,
” reports
Frantz Duval
, editor of Le
Nouvelliste
.
"
The wind brought down the precarious shelters erected after the earthquake, it was a very difficult night with the rain for the Cayens in particular but also for all the inhabitants of the Great South where the earthquake struck on Saturday,
" he said. he concluded.
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