Etienne Chimene tried her best to soothe her 13-month-old son, Cenelson, who was lying in a wooden bed with a hole cut in it and a bucket underneath.
“I feel like my baby is getting worse,” she said as she stroked his head and he whimpered.
The center was overcrowded, and patients who were improving were forced outside. Among them was 21-year-old Nedrine Cabane, who sat on the ground with her father. He had brought her a pot of plantain soup that she ate gratefully — her first meal in three days.
“The fact that there is so much dirty water around makes me think that more people are going to get sick,” she said.
Dr. Thiery Francois, lead doctor for the Ministry of Health at the cholera center, said he didn’t know how many new cases had been caused by the storm nationwide.
“Certainly there are cases we don’t know anything about,” he said, referring to still-isolated areas.
People in the southern seaside community of Les Anglais and surrounding areas said little to no aid had reached them by Monday.
An aid group tried to distribute food and other emergency supplies by boat on Sunday, but it was forced to leave after a large crowd gathered.
“There were too many people fighting. They went to give it someplace else,” Claude Pierre Louis, 63, said angrily as she washed pots in a plastic bucket on the porch of her house, which lost its roof during the storm.
She said Les Anglais needed building supplies because almost every house was damaged, and most were destroyed. She added that people already had created a community group to help clear the streets of debris and rebuild on their own.
An estimated 158 people died in Les Anglais, said two police officers who declined to give their names because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Francis Jean, a 42-year-old farmer and taxi driver, was awaiting help after he, his wife and three daughters survived the storm but lost their roof and all their belongings.
“You can’t even explain what happened here. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life,” he said. “This town doesn’t exist anymore. There’s nothing.”
Fox reported from Les Anglais, Haiti. Associated Press writer Jamey Keaton in Geneva contributed.
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