Haiti After The Earthquake
 
A million homeless people, no fuel, no gas, no cars, no electricity, no running water, no telephone.

Over 200000 deaths– most buried in “mass graves” - entire family deaths, no mourners. The morgue is full—1000s of bodies placed on streets– then piled in dump trucks to be mass-buried.

People buried under collapsed buildings for over 40 hours with broken legs, broken arms, more than 1000 have to be amputated—and don’t talk about prosthetics at this point: hospitals are running out of medicine— some are not given pain killers.

Hospitals cannot hold anymore patients, 6 major hospitals already destroyed in the earthquake—some injured people have to stay on the streets and in parking lots . A hospital employing 120 staff only find 6 surviving staff after the earthquake.

3000 schools destroyed, Minister of Education says Haiti’s educational system has entirely collapsed.

Prisons are hit worst—rooms designed for 8 people are filling 75 people, there’s too many people even to stand at the same time, a single bucket for toilet, no running water, some are suffering from gunshot wounds from prison outbreaks, 24 hour lockdown, no medical attention. Many people losing their minds—lost their entire life, their friends and family, the places they spent their life in, becoming crazy, speaking only to themselves and wandering the streets.

 



   

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