Six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, the capital city is a tableau of life in the ruins. (Alexandre Meneghini/Associated Press)
They haven't even cleaned up the rubble yet?
Where did all that aid money go and what have the globalist forces been doing there these last six months?
"Partners to build Haiti hospital" by Elizabeth Cooney, Globe Correspondent | July 13, 2010
Partners In Health, the Boston-based global health initiative that has been the face of health care in Haiti after the devastating earthquake six months ago, is building a new teaching hospital there....
Dr. David Walton, the group’s deputy chief of mission in Haiti and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said by phone yesterday: “We are dealing with a tragedy that is unprecedented, so our response has to be unprecedented. This hospital is really going to be a centerpiece of our earthquake response.’’
He makes it sound like it just happened yesterday!
It's been SIX MONTHS, doc!!!
Partners In Health had been planning to build a 108-bed hospital in Mirebalais that would bring comprehensive primary and prenatal care to more than 160,000 people in the region, treating people suffering from tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, and malnutrition....
How can that be when so many goodhearted globalists cared so much about the place?
While private hospitals in Haiti offer such facilities, they are beyond the reach of most Haitians, 80 percent of whom live on less than $2 a day, Walton said. The new hospital, which will cost Partners In Health $15 million to build, will treat all comers.
Sort of like a universal coverage system that Americans can't have?
Partners In Health has raised $85 million for Haiti earthquake relief.
Then why hasn't there been any?
Walton, echoing former president Bill Clinton’s words as the United Nations special envoy to Haiti, said the project will “help Haiti build back better.’’
Like Obomber is going to fix the Gulf?
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Then they have a lot of work ahead of them:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hundreds of displaced families live perilously in a single file of flimsy shanties planted along the median strip of a heavily congested coastal road here called the Route des Rails.
Vehicles rumble by day and night, blaring horns, kicking up dust, and belching exhaust.
Which reminds me: we never see a word about U.S. occupation forces in Haiti.
Residents try to protect themselves by positioning tires as bumpers in front of their shacks but cars still hit, injure, and sometimes kill them. Rarely does anybody stop to offer help, and Judith Guillaume, 23, often wonders why.
“Don’t they have a heart, or a suggestion?’’ asked Guillaume, who covers her children’s noses with her floral skirt when the diesel fumes get especially strong.
Six months after the earthquake that brought aid and attention here from around the world, the median-strip camp blends into the often numbing wretchedness of the post-disaster landscape. Only 28,000 of the 1.5 million Haitians displaced by the earthquake have moved into new homes, and the Port-au-Prince area remains a tableau of life in the ruins....
Haitian and UN officials urge patience in the aftermath of what they call the largest urban disaster in modern history.
I think SIX MONTHS is LONG ENOUGH!!!
They point to accomplishments in providing emergency food, water and shelter and averting starvation, exodus and violence.
“What hasn’t happened is worth noting,’’ said Nigel Fisher, deputy special representative of the UN secretary general in Haiti. “We haven’t had a major outbreak of disease. We haven’t had a major breakdown in security.’’
Where did all that aid money go?
Also, they note, the Haitian government, while juggling the sometimes conflicting pressures from international groups here, is handicapped by the destruction or damage of most of its ministries and the large numbers of civil servants killed.
Now they are making excuses for that corrupt government?
“I defy any country on earth to be fully functional at this stage after such a disaster,’’ said Imogen Wall, spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
If it were Israel the world would be falling all over themselves to fix it.
Well, maybe not now.
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