No medicine, records or equipment: Haiti hospital struggles during protests

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN)The languid whack of a ceiling fan stirs the heat around the Intensive Care Unit. It’s the only sound on the ward. Because there is none of the life-saving equipment an ICU should have.

A solitary oxygen cylinder is the only object that separates the modern scene from the medieval.
There are three ICU patients in the State University Hospital of Haiti that occupies two blocks of the capital’s downtown area. The rest died, or left.

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