Prime Min­is­ter Gar­ry Conille was re­leased from the hos­pi­tal late Sun­day af­ter he was hos­pi­talised af­ter suf­fer­ing an ap­par­ent asth­ma at­tack on Sat­ur­day.

Conille, 58, who was sworn in­to of­fice ear­li­er last week, was rushed to a hos­pi­tal in Pé­tion-ville af­ter his oxy­gen sat­u­ra­tion and blood pres­sure had dropped sig­nif­i­cant­ly.

Pres­i­dent of the Pres­i­den­tial Tran­si­tion­al Coun­cil (CPT), Edgard Leblanc Fils, who had vis­it­ed the prime min­is­ter said that the doc­tors had in­di­cat­ed that Conille was “sta­ble’.

In a near­ly five-minute video mes­sage record­ing, Prime Min­is­ter Conille said that he is “well and is in health to­day thanks to God.

“I pub­lish this record­ing to as­sure you that I am well,” he said, telling the na­tion that he had suf­fered “a lit­tle dis­com­fort which could have been se­ri­ous, but thank God my se­cu­ri­ty team had rushed to take me to the hos­pi­tal where there was a team of among the most qual­i­fied doc­tors who took care of me.

“The whole time I was at the hos­pi­tal, I was think­ing of some­thing: Peo­ple who need to go to the gen­er­al hos­pi­tal can’t get there (due to wide­spread vi­o­lence). Peo­ple who need health care can’t af­ford it.”.

Conille said he is hop­ing by ear­ly this week “we can have a gov­ern­ment in place,” adding “I am do­ing every­thing we can so we can get out of this cri­sis”.

Conille faces a mon­u­men­tal task, with Haiti un­der siege by gangs that con­trol at least 80 per cent of the cap­i­tal as the coun­try awaits the UN-backed de­ploy­ment of a po­lice force from Kenya.

Last month, on an of­fi­cial vis­it to the Unit­ed States, Kenyan Pres­i­dent, William Ru­to, de­fend­ed the de­ci­sion for his coun­try to lead the UN-backed multi­na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty sup­port (MSS) say­ing “This is a cri­sis”.

The Ba­hamas, Bangladesh, Bar­ba­dos, Be­lize, Benin, Chad, Ja­maica and Kenya have of­fi­cial­ly no­ti­fied the Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al of their in­tent to con­tribute per­son­nel to the sup­port mis­sion.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Jun 10, CMC

CMC/ag/ir/2024

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