MSF Suspends Operations at Haiti Medical Center Following Deadly Attack

Escalating gang violence in Haiti exacerbates humanitarian crisis, with nearly half the population requiring assistance.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has indefinitely suspended operations at an emergency medical center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after an armed group killed a critically ill patient.
The patient was forcibly removed from an MSF ambulance and shot dead in the street, prompting the international medical charity to conduct a security analysis.
MSF is one of the few remaining international organizations providing medical care in Port-au-Prince, a city largely controlled by powerful gangs.
The escalating gang violence in Haiti has worsened in the power vacuum caused by the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021.
The United Nations estimates that nearly half of Haiti's population currently requires humanitarian assistance due to the violence, which has displaced about 200,000 residents and killed 3,000 people this year alone.