Haiti’s health minister has been removed from his post following a deadly gang attack on the largest public hospital in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

Two journalists and a police officer died and at least seven others were wounded in the shooting before the reopening of a hospital wing in Port-au-Prince.

The Christmas Eve attack added to an avalanche of bad news for Haiti, which was also battling damaging floods in the northern region of the country on Tuesday.

Wounded journalists in bloodied clothes waited for help on the floor of Haiti's General Hospital after it was attacked by gangs a day before Christmas Day.

Two journalists and a police officer were reportedly shot dead, while others were wounded in Tuesday's attack in the general hospital in the capital Port-au-Prince. The site had been recaptured by Haiti's government in July, after being occupied and destroyed by gangs.

A survivor of the worst gang attack on Haitian journalists in recent memory describes seeing colleagues cut down by bullets and reporters with head and chest wounds going without help

The Haitian Association of Journalists said seven reporters were wounded in what it called "a macabre scene comparable to terrorism, pure and simple."