In the first medical check-up conducted here, all of them tested negative for mpox or smallpox, among other diseases.

The commander of the Multinational Security Maintenance Mission in Haiti, Godfrey Otunge, recalled that the African troops underwent advanced medical evaluations before traveling to the Caribbean nation, where so far only one officer was wounded when gang members hit his shoulder.

This military officer whose name was never revealed by the superior command was treated with total discretion in the neighboring Dominican Republic.

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