“We received a formal invitation to attend the reopening of the State University Hospital of Haiti. It was similar to the invitation we received for the reopening of the Isaïe Jeanty Maternity Hospital. Only the date and location were different,” said Arnold Junior Pierre, a reporter for Radio Télé Galaxie, on Panel Magik on Thursday, December 26, 2024. He was a witness to the events that unfolded at HUEH on Tuesday, December 24, 2024.

A few days earlier, on a radio station in the capital, the Minister of Public Health and Population, Duckenson Lorthé Blema, had promised the population the reopening of HUEH as a “gift.”