Amid Ongoing Unrest, Caring for Covid-19 Patients in Haiti
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By Talya Meyers
At the height of Haiti’s current Covid-19 wave, Father Richard Frechette got on the phone with a local gang leader.
For the priest and medical doctor, it was a matter of life and death. His staff, caring for a ward full of Covid-19 patients, needed to be able to get oxygen canisters safely to St. Luke’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince, where Frechette works. Gang warfare was making the trip increasingly dangerous.
So Frechette made an impassioned plea: How would you feel, he asked the gang leader, if it were your mother or grandmother who was in the hospital? What would you do if it were your family or friends?
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