“The combination of violence, mass displacement, dangerous epidemics, and increasing malnutrition has bent Haiti’s health system,” said Bruno Maes, the UNICEF representative in the Caribbean country.
However, he emphasized that “the strangling of supply chains may be what breaks it.”.
Armed gangs continue to rule much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and Unicef warns that millions of children are at risk of disease and starvation.
Since President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination in 2021, the country has experienced extreme instability, with gangs gaining control over large areas.
