Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) fully resumed medical services at its Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince on August 28, after an armed intrusion on July caused the organization suspend admissions in the trauma centre. “We are pleased to resume all activities and be at the service of the public once...
Claudia, a nurse supervisor at MSF's Turgeau Emergency Centre in Port-au-Prince, describes how her team provides vital medical care in the midst of widespread insecurity and economic hardships.
Last night, approximately 20 armed men violently entered the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Tabarre, in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, to forcibly remove a patient with gunshot wounds who was still in the operating room. MSF strongly condemns this incursion, which demonstrates once again...
Faced with unsustainable security risks, Médecins Sans Frontières has been forced to close its hospital in the Cité Soleil area of the Haitian capital as a temporary measure on March 7. Violence has been spreading throughout Port-au-Prince since 28 February, leaving those caught in the crossfire...
Recent incidents involving Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams and activities in Port-au-Prince, as well as serious threats circulating on social networks, are jeopardizing the safety of MSF staff and patients treated in its facilities, and its ability to provide care in Haiti. On the night of...
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...
The number of cholera cases is rising at an alarming rate in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, and in several departments (administrative areas) of the country, warns the medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), calling for an immediate intensification of the response to the...
People in Haiti are today living in dire conditions and are confronted daily with an appalling health and humanitarian situation, which continues to deteriorate, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. Faced with an explosion of violence and a fuel shortage, people are struggling to access...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) joined the Haitian health authorities in the emergency response to treat patients presenting symptoms of cholera, following a resurgence of confirmed cases of cholera in Port-au-Prince as announced by the Ministry of Public Health (MSPP). In the Haitian capital, MSF...
"On Sunday, August 14, at about 11 p.m., a group of armed men burst into the Raoul Pierre Louis hospital in the Carrefour area of Port-au-Prince. In an emergency room supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), these men with firearms seized a patient and coldly executed him just outside the...
