Doctors and nurses in Haiti don’t know when they will get vaccines to fight COVID-19. Meanwhile, many people in the Caribbean nation do not practice social distancing or wear masks. Consequently, on doctor said, “the precarity is very high in Haiti.”
Last year, Manhattan-based Catholic Medical Mission Board built wells and other catchment structures to bring safe water to more than 260,000 people worldwide. The need is dire. Unsafe water carries deadly viruses or bacteria that cause diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio.
