Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is partially resuming its medical activities in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area after a 22-day suspension due to repeated threats and violence against its staff and patients. The decision to suspend MSF’s activities, even temporarily, was extremely difficult because the city is heavily affected by violence, and the medical needs […]
Read More… from Haiti: MSF Partially Resumes Medical Activities in Port-au-Prince
A series of threats by police forces against Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff have forced the organization to suspend its activities until further notice in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. Police officers have stopped MSF vehicles multiple times and directly threatened MSF staff members, including death and rape threats, in the week following […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest terms the killing of at least two patients who were executed after an MSF ambulance was stopped by members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers. On November 11, an MSF ambulance transporting three young people with gunshot wounds was stopped by Haitian police […]
On Tuesday, September 3, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance carrying a patient in critical condition was stopped by police in Port-au-Prince and detained, preventing our team from providing the necessary care. The patient was suffering from an open fracture and in urgent need of hospital care. Held for more than an hour, […]
Read More… from Haiti: MSF denounces obstruction of ambulance
As violence and insecurity forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in Port-au-Prince in recent months, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) increased efforts to provide water, sanitation, and hygiene services (WASH) to people in makeshift camps across the city. Since fighting between armed groups and the government surged in February 2024, […]
Read More… from Haiti: People fleeing violence in capital urgently need water and sanitation
Since the end of February, Port-au-Prince has been engulfed in unprecedented violence, cutting off the Haitian capital from the outside world following the closure of the airport and ports. The escalating insecurity has severely disrupted the medical operations of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has not been able to import any supplies since […]
Read More… from Closed ports, empty shelves: Haiti urgently needs medical supplies
The violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has seen a new and dramatic increase since Feb. 28 2024, with armed groups attacking new parts of the city. This surge in conflict, occurring frequently in residential zones, has deeply affected the community and has seriously disrupted the healthcare system, which is struggling to remain functional. At Doctors Without […]
Read More… from Haiti: Healthcare Navigates New Heights of Conflict in Port-au-Prince
I am a doctor in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, hearing gunfire as armed groups and police battle for control of our city. This kind of fighting began several years ago, but in recent weeks it has become increasingly violent, like a war. On Feb. 28, it was announced that elections could be postponed until August 2025. […]
Read More… from Haiti: How violence is affecting health and health care workers
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is scaling up its medical activities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to care for the mounting number of people injured in the chaos that has engulfed the Haitian capital since the Feb. 28 announcement that general elections may be postponed as late as August 2025. The violence has taken on a […]
On Tuesday, a group of armed men stopped an Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance in Port-au-Prince. They took a patient out by force and killed him. MSF is suspending all activities in the Emergency Centre indefinitely. On Tuesday 12 December at 4:00 p.m., a severely wounded man was admitted to MSF’s Emergency Centre […]