Haiti: After a gruesome attack, MSF suspends activities

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Head of Mission in Haiti Diana Arroyo told Al Jazeera on November 20 that MSF is suspending all medical activities in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince until further notice. This follows an attack on an MSF ambulance that resulted in the execution of at least two patients and physical harm to our staff on November 11, and a series of threats by Haitian police forces against our staff.

MSF has been working in Haiti for more than 30 years, and health care services have never been as limited for people in the country as they are right now, as the country faces unrelenting violence on top of a spiraling political and economic crisis. Though our services are urgently needed, MSF cannot resume admissions of new patients to our facilities in Port-au-Prince unless we are guaranteed unhindered security and respect for our medical and humanitarian mandate by armed groups, members of vigilante groups, and law enforcement officers.

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