A series of security incidents affecting Doctors Without Borders' medical teams continues to call into question the organization's presence and its operations. The medical staff, who fight daily to save lives, are shocked by this violence and the contempt shown by these armed groups towards them. Elsewhere in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, Doctors Without Borders had to temporarily close the Drouillard hospital in April 2022, permanently closed the doors of its emergency center in Martissant in June 2021, and suspend its support for the Raoul Pierre Louis hospital in Carrefour in January 2023 for security reasons.
Doctors Without Borders once again calls on the various parties to the conflicts in Port-au-Prince to respect medical facilities so that they can continue to function. Doctors Without Borders remains determined to stand by the Haitian people, the primary victims of the serious deterioration in the country's security situation in recent years. Apart from the Tabarre hospital, Doctors Without Borders is continuing its other medical programs in Haiti.
In 2022, Doctors Without Borders teams in Haiti, in collaboration with the ministry of health, carried out more than 4,600 surgeries, 34,200 emergency consultations and 17,800 mobile clinic consultations, treated 2,600 people with gunshot wounds, 370 people with burns and 2,300 people for sexual violence, and provided care during 700 births.
