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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: May 12, 2015
• Views : 747
• Category : Haiti News
• Description :  By Amélie Baron
  May 9, 2015 9:45 AM
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://news.yahoo.com/five-years-quake-haiti-hospital-clings-hope-134558163.html

Overview

• Port-au-Prince (AFP) - In the five years since Port-au-Prince was devastated by an earthquake, staff at Haiti's largest hospital have had to resort to examining patients in shipping containers.
  
  More than half of the HUEH university hospital in the already desperately poor nation was destroyed in the 2010 disaster that killed more than 200,000 people.
  
  A $50 million reconstruction process, financed in equal parts by France and the United States, began in earnest two years ago and is due to end in late 2017.
  
  French President Francois Hollande is due to visit next week, but it is clear that much remains to be done -- while the harried staff struggle to keep services running.
  
  Carine Cleophat has worked at the hospital for more 20 years. She is head of radiology, but finds herself dealing with all sorts of disruptions as she makes her rounds.
  
  Here, she shoos away a man selling fans. There she tells a woman lounging on a bench to sit up. Now she remonstrates with a motorcyclist who honked his horn on hospital grounds.
  
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