Haiti Emergency Situation Report No. 11 (As of 25 March 2024)

This report is produced by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Haiti in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It covers the humanitarian situation in Port-au-Prince following the violence that broke out on 29 February. The report mainly covers the period from 22-25 March 2024.

HIGHLIGHTS

• The National Ambulance Center, which was temporally closed due to gang activity, has reopened.

• Thousands of gallons of potable water were delivered to displaced people.

• There have been 10 suspected cases of cholera recorded in 48 hours at the Lycée Marie Jeanne IDP site.

339,827
Gallons of water distributed to displaced people since 29 February

4.97M
People facing acute food insecurity in Haiti

$674M
2024 Humanitarian Appeal

7%
Funding level of the 2024 Humanitarian Appeal

SITUATION OVERVIEW

The National Ambulance Center, which was forced to close on 21 March due to gang activity in the area, reopened today (25 March) and has relocated some ambulances to La Paix Hospital. The Bernard Mevs hospital, which closed last week, remains closed for security reasons. Access difficulties persist across different departments, impeding response activities within the country. The medical and wash supplies for the cholera response are unable to be distributed, potentially leading to a shortage of supplies soon, especially in the event of an outbreak. Zanmi Lasanté, an important Haitian NGO within the country’s health system, is also struggling to transport medicines from Port-au-Prince to the Center and Artibonite departments for the hospitals they support. The health cluster is coordinating with the logistics cluster to identify solutions. Additionally, health interventions in IDP sites continue to face challenges due to access difficulties. Some sites have seen the number of IDPs sheltering double due to people fleeing from one site to safer locations.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) carried out a needs assessment and updated the mapping of partner health facilities in the Port-au-Prince and Artibonite metropolitan areas. This exercise provided a clear picture of the health facilities that remain operational and the most urgent needs. In the metropolitan area, Hôpital Universitaire de la Paix, Petit Place Cazeau and Hôpital Elizer Germain are continuing to provide a minimum level of emergency obstetric care. UNFPA intends to support with essential medicines and sexual and reproductive health kits in order to strengthen capacities to care for pregnant women and girls, including GBV survivors.

In its latest mapping of referral services in the Ouest Department, the GBV sub-cluster indicates 250 incidents of GBV were reported during the first two months of the year. Some 68 per cent of reported cases involved internally displaced people. Only 3 per cent of rape cases were treated within 72 hours of the incident, due to access constraints, a lack of medicines, and a lack of resources to support cases in terms of referral and case management.