Haiti, Rava Foundation: “We need oxygen for covid patients”

“I feel half Haitian, for Haiti I ask for prayers and the attention of the press, we have addressed an appeal to the Pope”, but on a practical level, oxygen is above all needed for covid sufferers. Speaking with Adnkronos in this way is Maria Vittoria Rava, of the Francesca Rava Foundation who has been operating in Haiti since 1987, where she manages two hospitals. Rava is in Italy and after the assassination of President Moise, he heard the staff of the Foundation on the spot, all Haitians according to the philosophy of the organization that aims at empowering the local population “They are all scared, they are worried” – he says. – “the doctors and nurses who were on duty were stuck in the hospital, whoever had to relieve them is stuck in the house, the streets are empty you can’t go around, they are organizing to pick them up because they are very afraid of out “. The news of Moise’s killing,” which shocked us “, came as the Foundation was working to collect Father Rick Frechette’s appeal for the urgent dispatch of oxygen cylinders for covid patients, he explains. Rava. Priest and frontline doctor, Father Rick oversees the foundation’s two hospitals, Saint Damien and Saint Luc, one of which is pediatric. Now a new wave of coronavirus infections has arrived and hospitals have had to equip themselves with covid places. “We had to expand the Covid-19 center at St Luc hospital from 8 to 65 beds”, said the priest, quoted in a statement from the Foundation for fundraising via the web address WWW.DONA.NPH-ITALIA .ORG. “From April to June of 2020, we had 120 functioning beds. Thereafter the contagion subsided. Now the severe recovery with 65 beds and we expect 120 will soon be needed. The Haitian Ministry of Health has announced variants from the Amazon region of Brazil and from the UK. Covid-19 is on the rise, while we are already facing the plagues of the political crisis, ongoing grinding poverty, crime and kidnappings “, concludes Father Rick.