Haiti’s Medical Staff Strike Challenges Country’s Health System
Humanosphere: Haiti’s nationwide doctor strike continues with no end in sight
Humanosphere journalist Lisa Nikolau discusses Haiti’s nationwide medical staff strike, “which has spread to more than a dozen state-run hospitals and led to countless deaths as hospitals scramble to provide care for neglected patients. … [T]he nationwide strike has posed a new public health challenge that Haiti’s medical system isn’t equipped to handle,” Nikolau writes (8/11).
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