A recommendation for eye care agencies to withhold from entering Haiti has been made by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).
In a letter to its members seen by Optician, the IAPB warned that their good intentions may cost lives, reasoning that humanitarian space was very limited.
The IAPB stated that the influx of unnecessary people and programmes would hinder lifesaving efforts and efforts to restore infrastructures needed to provide water, food and basic public health interventions.
The IAPB said that there was no need for eye care agencies to put their staff in unnecessary danger from unsafe structures collapsing and downed electrical wires as well as the potential for civil unrest.
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