Health personnel with the medical charity Medecin Sans Frontieres or Doctors Without Borders (MSF) get ready at the dressing area before attending to patients infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the MSF's facilities, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti June 23, 2020. REUTERS/Jeanty Junior Augustin
PORT-AU-PRINCE/HAVANA (Reuters) - Berthony Clermont shares a two-room flat without running water with 10 relatives in the Haitian capital's Cite Soleil slum, so when he fell ill with the novel coronavirus, they all did.
"I tried staying at home at the beginning but it was difficult to isolate myself as the house is too small," said the 45-year old. Mistrustful of the dilapidated public healthcare in Haiti - the poorest country in the Americas - Clermont and his family treated themselves at home with herbal teas.
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