According to the United Nations Migration Agency, the IOM, in the past few weeks, have increased in the expulsion of women, including those who are pregnant or breastfed, as well as children and newborns.
The agency highlighted the increased risks that these groups face in Haiti, where access to basic services remains severely limited.
Only Tuesday, IOM staff at the border crossing of Bellaère in Haiti received 416 deportees, including 11 pregnant women and 16 women who are still breastfeeding.
Meet the needs
“Although the IOM teams are not present during the expulsion process itself, their efforts are focused on the needs of deportees on arrival, many of which arrive in precarious and very vulnerable conditions, often without any resourcesSaid UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, speaking in New York.
He explained that IOM provides immediate humanitarian assistance, including food, water and hygiene kits, as well as first aid, medical references and psychosocial support.
Particular attention is paid to maternal health, and temporary places where living are organized for women who are breastfeeding if necessary, he added.
Worsen the conditions
Mr. Dujarric has also updated the situation in Haiti, where the increase in violence and recent financing cuts undermines essential services and aggravates the humanitarian situation, in particular in the Center department.
The escalation of violence on the part of the armed groups sparked a mass movement, with More than 51,000 people, more than half of them, fleeing recent attacks. Many are now blocked on makeshift sites or are looking for security in other regions.
No security inside hospitals
He noted that the Mirebalais University Hospital – A major reference establishment with around 300 beds – has suspended operations Follow a wave of insecurity in the region.
“Armed attacks, a mass prison break and the destruction of public infrastructure forced the hospital to close gradually.
Meanwhile, two other hospitals in the region – Saint -Thérèse of Hinche Hospital and Albert Schweitzer in the Artibonite – are now subject to increased tension and critical shortages, including oxygen and emergency medical kits.
Since the closure of the Mirebalais University Hospital, they have treated more than 200 patient injury patients, cerebral vascular accidents, suspected cholera and malnutrition.
“Saint -Thérèse alone has received more than 3,500 internal displaced people – tripled his ambulatory workload,” said Dujarric.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and humanitarian partners are trying to relieve pressure on the health system of the Center department.
Mobile clinics are deployed to reach 30,000 people in host communities and travel camps, in coordination with Haitian authorities and Catholic Caritas Caritas.
Humanitarians are looking for $ 908 million to support nearly four million people in Haiti this year. Only six percent of funding, $ 57 million, has been received to date.
