But road travel from the sites remains difficult. The general says there are more than 1,400 flights on a waiting list to land in Port-au-Prince.
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What in fact happens is that the numbers of patients sent for their first hospital appointment by their general practitioners, and the proportion of these put on to the waitinglist for operations by hospital consultants, are both affected by the size of the waitinglist itself.
They consider this to be effectively handing control over to managers who themselves are under pressure to meet ambitious waitinglist targets and the fear is that those could become unrealistic goals as a general election approaches.
Peddling is allowed on sidewalks and other public places with a general vendor license, though the city limits the number available to 853 at a time, and the waitinglist for new ones is closed. (An exception is made for veterans.) But selling goods from a parked vehicle is prohibited, according to the Department of Consumer Affairs.