For the first time in over 30 years Médicins Sans Frontières halts activity leaving 2 million people in Port-au-Prince without vital healthcareMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said its aid workers are “heartbroken” after the medical NGO was forced to suspend all of its healthcare services in Port-au-Prince for the first time in three decades, leaving Haitians in the violence-ravaged capital without a critical lifeline.The international non-profit said it had no choice but to halt all operations on Wednesday after staff were repeatedly attacked and received death threats from armed vigilantes and the national police. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/21/msf-aid-workers-heartbroken-as-charity-forced-to-halt-services-in-haitian-capital-after-repeated-attacks
Author : Luke Taylor
Publish date : 2024-11-21 10:32:57
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MSF aid workers ‘heartbroken’ as charity forced to halt services in Haitian capital after repeated attacks
