continued on Haiti’s earthquake. Some hotels – such as Montana, where 200 people are reported missing in the rubble – schools also collapsed, as the antenna of the mission of the International Organization of la Francophonie, where no human loss would be regretted. Hospitals have also been destroyed.
One of the few health facilities still standing, the Argentine hospital in Port-au-Prince, built and controlled by the Argentine contingent of MINUSTAH, is in a critical situation, overwhelmed “because of the quantity” of people affected by the earthquake. According to its director Daniel Desimone, more than 800 people were housed, the majority women and children. “Many children were abandoned by their parents in the hospital, because they return home to pick up relatives or for fear of looting,” he told an Argentine television.
While Port-au-Prince over makeshift houses that tall buildings, the Haitian capital is dotted with homes fragile hillsides unable to resist an earthquake of this magnitude.

