The tragic incident unfolded on Sunday at the Raoul Pierre Louis hospital in Carrefour, a southern suburb of the Haitian capital, the NGO said.
Gunmen stormed a hospital in a suburb of the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, they took a patient out and killed him, the non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) complained yesterday, stressing that its members are “shocked” by this “barbarity”.
The tragic incident unfolded on Sunday at the Raoul Pierre Louis hospital in Carrefour, a southern suburb of the Haitian capital, the NGO said.
“In the emergency unit supported by Doctors Without Borders, men armed with pistols grabbed a patient and executed him in cold blood at the exit of the hospital,” he said in a press release he released.
No details are known about the victim or the gunmen. A Haitian police representative could not be reached for comment.
“This is the first time we have recorded such an incident, armed men breaking into one of our centers to commit such a crime,” Alexandre Michel, MSF’s public relations officer, told AFP.
Mr. Michel recalled that a man was recently killed by a bullet near one of the NGO’s facilities, not far from the Site Soleil, the most neglected and most populated in the metropolitan area of ​​Haiti’s capital, something led to the temporary closure of the health center.
“We call for respect to be shown to our medical missions, to the wounded, to the nursing staff, to the reception structures and also to the ambulances transporting the wounded,” he added.
“If a similar incident like what happened on August 14 is repeated, we will be forced to close our center to assess the situation,” he stressed.
In June 2021, a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Martissan, in the southern region of Port-au-Prince, an area where rival gangs battle, came under fire. Two months later, the organization announced the closure of this center after 15 years due to insecurity. The hospital has since relocated to downtown Port-au-Prince.
Haiti has been mired in both a political and security crisis for years, and after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021, the situation worsened even further.
Armed gangs operate with near-total impunity and violence continues to escalate in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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