Haiti: Treating trauma patients affected by chronic violence Format A high level of chronic violence has continued this year across Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, creating a need for medical care beyond what patients can afford. Chronic violence is affecting people in myriad ways across Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, as gangs fight for territory and influence amid a larger political and economic crisis in the country. In response to increasing medical needs caused by violence as well as traffic accidents, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reopened its former trauma hospital in the city's Tabarre neighborhood in November 2019 and has continued to operate it since then.