MSF suspends work in Haiti emergency centre after armed group kills patient
One of the last international groups providing healthcare in capital says it can’t work if ‘threatened by violence’.
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One of the last international groups providing healthcare in capital says it can’t work if ‘threatened by violence’.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – International aid group Doctors Without Borders said on Thursday it was suspending work at a medical centre in the Haitian capital after an armed group pulled a critically ill patient from an ambulance and shot him dead in the street. The attack took place on Tuesday near Turgeau Emergency Center in central, […]
International aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday it was suspending work at a medical center in the Haitian capital after an armed group pulled a critically ill patient from an ambulance and shot him dead in the street.
International aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday it was suspending work at a medical center in the Haitian capital after an armed group pulled a critically ill patient from an ambulance and shot him dead in the street."MSF remains one of the last international organizations to provide health care in the Haitian capital and cannot accept that its ambulances are violently attacked and patients shot dead in the street," MSF head of mission Benoit Vasseur said in the news release.