“We are aware that the closure of this hospital will seriously harm the inhabitants of Cité Soleil, but our teams cannot work until the security conditions are guaranteed.“, says Vincent Harris, medical referent at MSF. MSF deplores a “dizzying degradation“of the security situation in the capital Port-au-Prince.”We are a collateral victim of the fighting since the hospital found itself on the front line“, explains Mr. Harris again.
On Friday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on the international community to consider “urgently the deployment of a specialized support force” in Haiti, where gangs support a “nightmare” to residents. In the Brooklyn neighborhood of Cité Soleil alone, violence by armed gangs has, in the second half of 2022, caused 263 murders and at least 57 gang rapes of women and girls have been recorded there, according to a UN report.
