Nearly two weeks after the closures forced by violence, of the Hospital of the State University of Haiti and certain other private and public hospital centers, the Haitian Medical Association (AMH), in a note published this week, bearing the signatures of Dr. Carole Cadet Day (President) and Dr. Jean Ardouin Louis Charles (Secretary General), notes that "[...] this socio-political crisis does not respond to the legitimate aspirations of the majority of citizens, groups of people and families making up Haitian society."

"The AMH expresses its dismay at certain acts of vandalism perpetrated across Haitian territory, such as ransacking and looting, the forced closure of hospitals, physical acts of violence against the nursing staff of these public and private health institutions, all categories combined [...]"

The AMH does not hide its concern about the successive dysfunction and closure of the main public and private hospitals in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.

The AMH calls for the "peaceful search for solutions responding to the wishes of the Haitian people and also for respect for the inalienable rights of all individuals without distinction and more particularly for respect for health institutions and healthcare personnel. Because health is a primordial need for women, children, men, young people and old people in our country, Haiti. The well-being and safety of all are at stake."

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