Haiti hospital cares for kids amid gang violence, hunger and scarce aid


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  • Thursday, 03 Aug 2023

Mackenson Pierre, a doctor, treats Marie Michelle Joseph's 9-month-old baby Myleisha Moliere at the Centre Hospitalier de Fontaine, located in the impoverished neighborhood of Cite Soleil, where the two rival gangs, G-Pep and G-9, are based, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 27, 2023. REUTERS/Octavio Jones

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Marie Michelle Joseph's 9-month-old daughter is weak and has a persistent fever.

After being turned away from Haiti's only general hospital, her daughter Myleisha was finally accepted at Fontaine Hospital, a UNICEF-sponsored facility in the capital Port au Prince - in an area the rest of her family considers too unsafe to visit.

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