Haiti seems to have entered a new chapter of political drama and intrigue with the recent hospitalization of its freshly minted Prime Minister, Garry Conille. Conille was admitted late Saturday in the capital of Port-au-Prince, just days after making his grand arrival in the beleaguered country. While his hospitalization might sound like the start of a TV medical drama, it’s actually more like a soap opera mixed with a Kafkaesque nightmare.

The reasons behind Conille's sudden trip to the hospital remain as elusive as a politician’s tax returns. No official information has been released and attempts to clarify the situation have been less effective than a wishbone in a hurricane. Even Louis Gérald Gilles, a member of the transitional presidential council that recently chose Conille, was present at the hospital but could provide no additional details. Meanwhile, a spokesman for Conille has also been notably absent, ignoring messages and calls, presumably to avoid further muddling the already murky waters. After all, why provide clarity when obscurity is so much more mystifying?

Adding to the spectacle, AP journalists observed a parade of high-ranking officials arriving at the hospital, including Frantz Elbé, the director of Haiti’s National Police, and Bruno Maes, UNICEF’s representative in Haiti. Authorities upped the drama quotient by blocking the street outside the hospital with tinted-glass SUVs, effectively providing a VIP-only event to a handful of curious onlookers who gathered outside, hoping for a scoop or, at the very least, some non-boring gossip.

Conille, who was chosen as prime minister on May 28 after a convoluted selection process that could give a Rube Goldberg machine a run for its money, has faced considerable challenges since stepping into office. Among these is the gargantuan task of quelling gang violence and preparing for the U.N.-backed deployment of a Kenyan police force—a plan delayed because Haiti lacked a premier after Ariel Henry’s dramatic exit.

Former Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned after an action-adventure level scenario where gang attacks effectively locked him out of the country. Conille now has to pick up the pieces, which, given the current circumstances, might involve some literal first aid.

The newly minted PM arrived in Haiti on June 1, having worked as UNICEF’s regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean since January 2023. His prior stint as Haiti’s prime minister from October 2011 to May 2012 under President Michel Martelly seems like a simpler chapter in what is now a complex and rapidly thickening plot. Since his arrival, Conille has been meeting with multiple officials and visiting various parts of the city, positioning himself wherever the action is—or in this case, the lack of actionable information.

On the very day of his hospitalization, Conille was busy touring Haiti’s main international airport and holding meetings with the leaders of the private business sector and the country’s two telecommunications companies. Perhaps it was these rigorous engagements that landed him in this unfortunate situation, or maybe it’s just the start of another equally convoluted chapter in Haitian politics.

For now, Haiti remains captivated by this unfolding drama, where the lines between governance and theatrics blur to the point that distinguishing between the two requires expertise in both political science and screenwriting. We can only hope that Garry Conille’s medical chart becomes less complicated, and perhaps, by some miracle, less confusing than the intricacies of Haitian politics.