Medical personnel travelled to remote areas of Haiti to treat victims of Hurricane Matthew, that hit the Caribbean island last week and left 1,000 dead and a trail of destruction.
In the southwestern area of Les Cayes, families brought their injured to be seen by medical personnel.
These medics, from the U.S. non-profit organization Samaritan’s Purse, attended to a steady stream of local residents.
Earlier this week, the charity flew tons of aid, including tarps, water and hygiene kits, for relief of victims of Hurricane Matthew. It has said it hopes to plan food distribution further down the road.
Hurricane Matthew ripped through Haiti’s southwestern peninsula last week, leaving 1.4 million people in need of aid, hundreds of thousands homeless and unleashing a new cholera surge.
The United Nations and aid organizations are now rushing out across areas hardest hit by the hurricane, the biggest relief operation in Haiti since the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed over 300,000, according to final government statistics.
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