Country and Region: Haiti

Haiti’s capital is in a state of high tension as armed groups vie for power across the city and challenge the government.

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Read More… from Haiti: Unbearable insecurity in Port-au-Prince

As tensions and armed conflict escalate in Haiti’s capital, shortages of fuel, public transportation and drinking water are putting medical facilities and patients at risk.

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Read More… from Haiti: Shortages of fuel, water and transportation threaten medical care

A fuel shortage in Haiti in recent days is threatening access and continuity of medical care in the country, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. At its trauma hospital in Tabarre, Port au Prince, MSF has been forced to limit patients and is only treating life-threatening emergencies. The […]

Read More… from Haiti fuel crisis: MSF forced to cut back its activities at Tabarre Hospital

The greatest number of deaths and injuries from Haiti’s August 14, 2021, earthquake occurred in the country’s southernmost region, the Sud department. Prior to this disaster, hospitals and clinics were already scarce in remote areas of Sud, and the earthquake damaged or destroyed many health facilities and roadways, making it difficult for earthquake survivors in […]

Read More… from Haiti: Earthquake survivors need continued care in the south

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

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 […]

Read More… from Haiti: In Port-au-Prince, MSF transfers burn patients after violent clashes around its hospital