Haitian

Haiti: Violence and threats by police force MSF to suspend activities in Port-au-Prince metropolitan area

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Port-au-Prince – A series of threats by police forces against 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 … Read more

Haiti: MSF outraged by attack on its ambulance by law enforcement and execution of patients

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Port-au-Prince, November 12, 2024 — 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 … Read more

Haiti: MSF denounces obstruction of ambulance causing patient’s death

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On Tuesday, September 3, a 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, the patient … Read more

Haiti: Healthcare Navigates New Heights of Conflict in Port-au-Prince

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The violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has seen a new and dramatic increase since 28 February 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 Médecins Sans … Read more

Haiti: How violence is affecting health and health care workers

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Dr Priscille Cupidon, medical activity manager of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urban violence project in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, explains how the chronic extreme violence gripping the city has impacted medical care and healthcare workers like her. I am a doctor in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, hearing gunfire as armed groups and police battle … Read more

MSF scales up its medical response in Port-au-Prince during chaos in the Haitian capital

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 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 February 28 announcement that general elections may be postponed as late as August 2025. The violence has taken on … Read more

Haiti: MSF forced to suspend activities after armed men kill patient

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Port-au-Prince, 27 January 2023: On Thursday 26 January, armed men entered the Médecins Sans Frontières-supported Raoul Pierre Louis public hospital in Carrefour, a district located to the west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The men dragged a patient out of the emergency room and killed him outside the hospital. It is the second time in six months … Read more

MSF supports Haitian health authorities in cholera vaccination

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Port-au-Prince, 20 December 2022 – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Haiti are supporting the cholera vaccination campaign launched by the national health authorities. This campaign is the latest effort in response to the resurgence of the disease, which has affected more than 15,000 people and caused more than 300 deaths in the country since … Read more