Haiti is no stranger to crisis. Amid civil unrest, staggering unemployment, lack of quality health care and severe poverty, the country now faces a global pandemic that officials say could worsen its hunger crisis.
"The situation has been described as a perfect storm approaching," Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization said in a briefing Tuesday, warning the spread of the coronavirus could result in famine.Haiti's World Food Programme Director Pierre Honnorat told CNN that he expects hunger to"get much worse." "Close to four million Haitians were already facing hunger before the Covid-19 crisis.
On top of the hunger and lack of sanitation, we have no electricity to stay connected with the news."According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 34,000 people live in 22 settlement camps across Haiti."Access remains difficult in these areas, no humanitarian assistance is being provided at the moment," the IOM said.
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