DAME MARIE, Haiti (AP) – In this most western tip of Haiti, 300 patients with festering wounds lay silently on beds at the main hospital in the seaside village of Dame Marie waiting for medicine a week after Hurricane Matthew hit the remote peninsula.
Among the injured was Beauvoir Luckner, a cobbler and farmer who walked 12 kilometers (7 miles) in three days after a tree crushed his leg and killed his mother when it fell on their house. His leg might have to be amputated, but all doctors can do is clean his wounds because the hospital has run out of everything, including pain killers.
“There’s no water, no antibiotics,” Dr. Herby Jean told The Associated Press. “Everything is depleted … We hear helicopters flying overhead, but we’re not getting anything.”
There was also no power and frustration grew on Tuesday as food, medicine and fresh water kept arriving at the main city in Haiti’s southwest peninsula but was slow to reach increasingly desperate communities like Dame Marie.
Meanwhile, Luckner lay on a mattress with no sheets and a bandage around his left leg.