Saturday, December 8, 2018 in Lombré, a locality of Délattes, 7th communal section of Petit-Goâve 5 members of the Sénatus family were victims of poisoning after drinking a chadèque juice that a child had picked up on the courtyard of the home... Jean Sénatus, his wife and his 3 children were in severe pain and lost consciousness after eating the juice around 6:00 pm.

In view of the seriousness of the situation, some farmers administered the victims a traditional medicinal remedy, which later vomited but remained unconscious.

The journalist Wilson Saint-Juste and Vergin contacted Radio Préférence by telephone around 11:40 pm for an appeal to be launched at Notre-Dame Hospital. The station met at midnight with Dr. Jasmin Fred, President of the Management Committee of Notre-Dame Hospital, on the tragedy in Delattes. The doctor reassured that the ambulance was available but that it could not at this time, go to Delattes because of the critical condition of the road and the darkness, confirming however that the ambulance could reach to Vialet look for the sick.

On the side of Délattes, it was physically impossible to transport the victims to Vialet, because of the lack of road infrastructure and a completely impracticable access road. Late in the night, the peasants decided to transport the victims themselves to a hospital in the commune of Fond des Blancs where the poisoned family received the necessary care for their condition.

The residents of Délattes on Radio Préférence strongly criticized the Petit-Goâve authorities who neglected the rural area and took the opportunity to demand the construction of the Vialet-Délattes road section.

According to the information provided by Jean Claude, a citizen of Délattes, the poison seems to have been injected into the fruit... Information to be taken with much reserve in the absence of official analysis on the causes of this poisoning.

HL/ HaitiLibre / Guyto Mathieu (Correspondant Petit-Goâve)