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Why we suspended activities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

A series of threats by Haitian police forces against Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff have forced us to suspend our medical work until further notice in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the past week, police officers have stopped MSF vehicles multiple times and directly threatened MSF staff members, including by threatening death and rape. 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. These repeated incidents have compelled MSF to stop patient admissions and transfers to our five medical facilities in Haiti’s capital on November 20, as they clearly illustrate the direct targeting of our personnel and patients in Haiti. MSF provides care to everyone on the basis of medical needs alone. Each week on average in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, MSF provides care to more than 1,100 patients on an outpatient basis, 54 children with emergency conditions, and more than 80 new survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. MSF is suspending all medical services except to already hospitalized patients at our five medical facilities and our mobile clinics in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, who will continue to be in MSF’s care. Our maternal health activities in the south of the country, in Port-a-Piment, will also continue. Make sure you don’t miss weekly video updates and ongoing series about our work in crisis zones across the world. Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/BtzdsR Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières helps people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care. Learn more at https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/BtzdsR Like us on Facebook:   / doctorswithoutborders   Follow us on Instagram:   / doctorswithoutborders   Follow us on Twitter:   / msf_usa   Connect with us on LinkedIn:   / m-decins-sans-fronti-res-msf-   Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org...