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Sun Jun 9, 2024, 07:05 AM Jun 2024

Haiti's new prime minister hospitalized days after being selected to lead country

https://apnews.com/article/haiti-new-prime-minister-hospital-gary-conille-73718330cfad56df15cbb536e6d0487e

Haiti’s new prime minister hospitalized days after being selected to lead country

BY EVENS SANON AND DÁNICA COTO
Updated 11:07 PM EDT, June 8, 2024

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s newly selected prime minister, Garry Conille, was hospitalized late Saturday in the capital of Port-au-Prince just days after arriving in the country, the government said.

It wasn’t immediately known why Conille was hospitalized.

The office of the prime minister said in a statement that Conille was feeling slightly unwell “following a week of intense activities.” It did not provide further details except to say that Conille was stable and that he thanked those who visited him and wished him well.

Louis Gérald Gilles, a member of the transitional presidential council that recently chose Conille as leader of the troubled Caribbean country, told The Associated Press that he was at the hospital but unable to provide further information.

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