More than a week after an earthquake destroyed his home and fractured the bones of his leg, Widnika, age 2 years and 7 months, sleeps in a bed at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince as his mother Widline sits with him. The 7.2 magnitude quake began at 8:29 a.m. local […]
Read More… from Haiti: A multitude of challenges for patients after the earthquake
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is continuing to respond to the earthquake that shook Haiti this weekend and provide medical care to people who have been injured. The magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the southern region of Haiti on Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 8:30 am local time. Our teams are on the ground providing help in the provinces […]
Read More… from Haiti earthquake: Getting help to people injured and displaced by the disaster
Xavier Kernizan is an orthopedic surgeon who normally works at MSF’s Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince. Since the August 14 earthquake, he has been working with an MSF surgical team in Jérémie.
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Read More… from Haiti: Earthquake survivors need care in the south
The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse last week brought global attention to the current political turmoil in Haiti, but the country had already been in a state of profound crisis for many months.
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Read More… from Haiti: maintaining health care amid extreme violence and uncertainty
A staff member of the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Tabarre trauma hospital was attacked and struck by a gunshot on his way home from work on the evening of May 25, even though he did not resist his attackers. He was rushed back to the hospital, but he was dead on arrival. A […]
Read More… from Haiti: MSF denounces unbearable “ordinary violence” after killing of staff member
Violent clashes between gang members took place on February 23 around a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) burn care hospital in the neighborhood of Drouillard, Port-au -Prince, forcing the staff to transfer the 21 hospital patients to another MSF hospital, located in the city’s Tabarre neighborhood, once calm returned. Gunfire in the immediate vicinity […]
Here’s a look at just a few of the humanitarian emergencies that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has responded to over the last 10 years.
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As the world marks 10 years since a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is paying tribute to the earthquake’s victims and highlighting the current deterioration of the medical care in the country, in a report released today. “The catastrophic earthquake killed thousands of people, displaced millions, and destroyed 60 percent of […]
Read More… from Haiti: Damage to health structures remains 10 years after earthquake