Healing Haiti's Children: Inside one of Port-au-Prince's last hospitals
Briefly

Kareen Ulysse remains in the gang-controlled neighborhood of Cite Soleil to operate her family-run Hospital Fontaine neonatal clinic despite escalating violence. Widespread gang attacks have caused thousands of deaths and displaced over a million people, leaving many newborns abandoned at the hospital. The closure of the airport and increasing assaults on healthcare facilities have sharply constrained access to urgent medical supplies. Oxygen for premature and vulnerable infants becomes especially scarce, forcing a frantic search to procure lifesaving resources. The situation places staff and patients at continual risk while intensifying humanitarian and logistical challenges for neonatal care.
As gang violence grips Haiti, Kareen Ulysse searches for supplies criticaltothe survivalof babies at her family-run hospital. While many people are forced to flee the violence devastating Haiti, Kareen Ulysse decides to stay and keep her family-run hospital open in the gang-controlled area of Cite Soleil. The chaos that has caused thousands of deaths and the displacement of more than a million people has also led to many babies being abandoned at Hospital Fontaine's neonatal clinic.
The chaos that has caused thousands of deaths and the displacement of more than a million people has also led to many babies being abandoned at Hospital Fontaine's neonatal clinic. Asthe airport is closed and hospitals come under increasing attack, the strain on obtaining urgent medical supplies intensifies. Amid this escalating crisis, Kareen finds herself in a race against time to obtain oxygen crucial to the newborn babies in her care. Healing Haiti's Children is a documentary film by Rosie Collyer.
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