Doctors Without Borders Evacuates Haiti Hospital After Treating 40 Gunshot Victims
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Updated · The Associated Press · May 12
Doctors Without Borders Evacuates Haiti Hospital After Treating 40 Gunshot Victims
7 articles · Updated · The Associated Press · May 12
Doctors Without Borders pulled staff and patients from its Cité Soleil hospital after Sunday clashes, saying the facility itself was hit when a security guard was struck by a stray bullet.
Within 12 hours, the hospital treated more than 40 gunshot victims and gave temporary shelter to 800 people fleeing the violence in Port-au-Prince.
The latest fighting forced hundreds more residents from their homes, with families sleeping along the road to Haiti’s main airport as gangs tighten control of the capital.
More than 90% of Port-au-Prince is now under gang control, and violence has displaced over 1.4 million people nationwide, even as a planned 5,550-member international force remains only partially deployed.
Once foreign troops leave Haiti, what prevents gangs from retaking control of a shattered nation?
As thousands of children are forced into Haiti's gangs, is an entire generation being sacrificed to the escalating violence?
With a UN force and private drones in Haiti, is this a rescue mission or the start of a new, deadlier conflict?