Three Weeks Later, Haiti in Ruins from Hurricane Matthew's Effects

When Hurricane Matthew hammered Haiti as a Category 4 storm in the early-morning hours of Oct. 4, meteorologists and humanitarian groups assumed the worst. Three weeks later, a full-blown calamity continues to unfold in western Haiti. Aid groups are still surveying the damage, but it has been an extremely slow and painful three-week period for the country. The storm brought deadly wind and rain, but it also yielded concerns of disease in the disaster's aftermath – fears that have proven legitimate.
"We can tell you that when our teams arrived, they compared the area to that of a bomb blast," Dr. Joanna Cherry, chief medical officer of Hospital Bernard Mevs' Project Medishare in Port-au-Prince, told NPR. "There's no leaves left on any trees. There's very little foliage still standing. There's no shade in any areas. Multiple houses had their roofs taken off during the storm."

A man named Mason, with cholera symptoms, receives medical attention at Saint Antoine Hospital of Jeremie, southwestern Haiti, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.

 

 

 

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