Coronavirus : Is Haiti prepared? Where are we?

Haiti Medical Alert

As the World Health Organization (WHO) is asking countries around the world to prepare a possible Coronavirus pandemic, Haiti is standing still. Nothing is being done.

The largest hospital in Haiti Haiti, the State University hospital is still waiting to put in place an isolation area for possible coronavirus patients. There are no supplies and no equipments ready should be such a catastrophe occur.

The private hospitals in Haiti, are they ready for coronavirus?

According to an article from newspaper Le Nouvelliste, the private hospitals are waiting for some kind of national strategy from the Haitian health authorities. In the mean time, they are putting together some kind of response plan, the article said.

Coronavirus has already killed more than 2800 people in China and it is crawling into the Caribbean region.

Just yesterday Haiti got a scare.

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