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Only a single hospital in Port-au-Prince remains open, with others devoid of staff as patients look for care and the dead pile upHaiti’s healthcare system has all but collapsed amid the ferocious gang insurrection which forced the resignation of the country’s prime minister, leaving victims of the violence with little hope of medical attention, according to aid workers in the stricken Caribbean country.In the...

Resurgence classified as grade 3 emergency by WHO, with southern Africa and Haiti among those hardest hitCholera cases soared last year, according to preliminary data from the World Health Organization, which recorded 4,000 cholera deaths and 667,000 cases globally.The numbers surpassed that of 2022, and the WHO has classified the global resurgence of cholera as a grade 3 emergency, its highest internal health emergency...