Night transfer of Haiti’s new prime minister to the hospital
report Mehr News Agency quoted by Reuters, Gary Connell, the interim prime minister of Haiti, who was appointed to this position a little more than a week ago in the midst of widespread internal unrest in the country, because of what a He was admitted to the hospital with an unspecified illness.
58-year-old Kanil was taken to the hospital immediately after the symptoms of respiratory problems appeared. His office did not provide any details about the cause of the problem.
A statement from the Haitian Prime Minister’s Office described Kanil’s condition as “stable”. Reuters has published images of several ambulances and police officers outside the said hospital in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.
Connell briefly led the country more than a decade ago and served as UNICEF regional director before returning to Haiti. . The Haitian Transitional Council appointed him to the position of Prime Minister on May 29 and entrusted him with the responsibility of restoring stability and removing the control of the country from the hands of the rebel drug cartels.
Javonel Moise, the last president of Haiti, was assassinated in 2021, and the country has been without a president since then. Ariel Henry, the prime minister at that time, left Haiti for Kenya with the aim of requesting the support and attracting the attention of different countries to form a security group supported by the United Nations in order to help the police in the fight against armed gangs. He did not return to Haiti and resigned.
The riots in Haiti started in late March last year after about 4,000 prisoners escaped from the country’s two largest prisons. Police stations were targeted by drug gangs and the attack of dangerous gangs on the country’s airport effectively cut off Haiti’s communication with the outside world.
