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Field News | March 12, 2010

Haiti: Two Months After the Quake, New Services and New Concerns

Two months after the January 12 earthquake, medical needs remain immense in Haiti and living conditions are extremely precarious

Press Release | March 11, 2010

Two Abducted MSF Staff Released in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, March 11, 2010 – Two staff members of the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), abducted on March 5 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, were safely released today.

Field News | March 4, 2010

Haitians Facing 'Intolerable Breach of Human Dignity'

The conditions in which thousands of people are surviving today are shameful. In assembly areas, there is such overcrowding that people are literally living on top of each other. We have seen people sleeping on the ground, with only a bed sheet hanging over their head for shelter.

Field News | March 3, 2010

Haiti: MSF Expanding Post-Operative Services in Response to Growing Need

“The immediate emergency phase may be over, but the long-term work is just beginning, and it’s no less an emergency,” said MSF Haiti head of mission Karline Kleijer.

Field News | February 19, 2010

MSF Operational Update – Haiti Earthquake Response

What follows is an overview of MSF’s current activities on the ground. MSF had projects running at three sites before the earthquake staffed by approximately 700 people. There are now 20 sites, plus 7 more mobile clinics, staffed by more than 3,000 people. The numbers below are current through the end of last week.

Field News | February 17, 2010

Haiti: The Thinking Behind the Hard Choices

Two MSF surgeons talk about the hard choices they had to make in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, which one said was like working in a war-zone, but "on a larger scale."

Field News | February 16, 2010

Haiti: Rebuilding Lives, Day by Day

In Jacmel, the injured look to MSF staff and each other for help rebuilding their lives

Voice from the Field | February 12, 2010

Haiti: "We are not out of the emergency phase yet"

Dr. Marie-Pierre Allié, president of Médecins Sans Frontières-France, who recently returned from a field visit to Haiti, analyses the situation there one month after the disaster.

Field News | February 8, 2010

Haiti: Steps Toward Recovery

Jerry is seven years old. On January 12, he was seriously injured in the earthquake that devastated his hometown of Port-au-Prince.

Field News | February 3, 2010

Haiti: Two Weeks of Emergency Care in Review

With conditions finally improving for the practice of surgery and medicine, three MSF staff members describe how the teams treated patients in the ruins of the Delmas district in the immediate aftermath of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.

Voice from the Field | February 3, 2010

Haiti: An Anesthetist’s 10-day Mission

Dr. Philippe Touchard, an anesthetist, is head of emergencies at the Pasteur Hospital in Langon, near Bordeaux. Forty-eight hours after the January 12 earthquake, he flew to Haiti to reinforce MSF’s surgical teams in Port-au-Prince. Here are exerpts of his journal of this short mission.

Field News | February 2, 2010

Haiti: New Life Amid the Rubble

MSF has been providing emergency obstetrics care for pregnant mothers.

Field News | February 1, 2010

Haiti: Operating Theaters Still Busy, But Nature of Injuries Starting to Change

The nature of the injuries and conditions in Haiti is gradually changing.

Voice from the Field | January 29, 2010

Haiti: "It's Going to be a Very Long Recovery"

MSF International President Dr. Christophe Fournier reflects on his time in Haiti and the many challenges to come.

Voice from the Field | January 28, 2010

Haiti: Immediate and Long-term Health Needs

Brigg Reilley, an MSF epidemiologist in Haiti, discusses MSF’s current priorities as well as the priorities in the weeks and months to come.

Field News | January 28, 2010

Haiti: As Situation Evolves, So Do Services

MSF continues to focus primarily on providing medical services in hospitals and clinics in Haiti, but teams are also adapting to the evolving situation on the ground.

Voice from the Field | January 27, 2010

Haiti: Courage, Selflessness, and Discovery

In any tragedy there are miraculous moments. Today I learned of one of those moments and was witness to another.

Field News | January 26, 2010

Haiti: MSF Teams Adapting to Needs on the Ground

The team that built MSF’s inflatable hospital in Port-au-Prince is now working on a plan to create a post operative "village" in the city.

Field News | January 25, 2010

Haitian Staff Determined To Help Their People

Despite personal losses, MSF’s Haitian staff continue to provide emergency assistance to their people.

Field News | January 25, 2010

Haiti: Surgery, Post-Op Care Remain Most Pressing Medical Needs

Nearly two weeks after the January 12 earthquake, the most pressing needs MSF teams in Haiti face are patients who still require surgery and the growing number of patients who now require post-operative care.

Voice from the Field | January 25, 2010

Treating Crush Syndrome in Haiti With Lifesaving Dialysis

We were very lucky because we found a dialysis center at General Hospital. It was broken down—there was no water, there was no electricity because of the earthquake. But with the MSF logisticians we could restart it in 36 hours.

Voice from the Field | January 24, 2010

Haiti: 11 Days After the Earthquake, Some Changes Visible

The teams are still working hard to treat as many as possible, always trying to save what they can from so many injured bodies.

Field News | January 24, 2010

Haiti: Greenpeace Donates Use of Ship to MSF

The environmental organization Greenpeace generously donated the use of its ship, Esperanza, to assist MSF with its emergency response in Haiti.

Field News | January 23, 2010

Haiti: Going Beyond Emergency Care

In the immediate aftermath of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, MSF focused on emergency surgery and life-saving interventions. Now, though, some MSF teams are seeing more patients who need care for pre-existing conditions and for infections or complications affecting wounds they couldn’t get treated properly.

Field News | January 22, 2010

Haiti: MSF Teams Going Mobile to Reach More Patients

While continuing to perform operations at its fixed sites, MSF has started sending mobile teams into communities in and around the capital to search for people with conditions that could deteriorate rapidly if they go untreated.

Press Coverage | January 22, 2010

USA Today: Quality of Care Is a Matter of Luck in Haiti

Comments from Greg Elder, deputy operations manager for MSF in Haiti.

Voice from the Field | January 21, 2010

Haiti: Strong Aftershock Was "Frightening for Everyone"

MSF emergency physician Sebastian Spencer was working at Choscal hospital in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince, on January 20 when the area sustained a strong aftershock. Here he describes what happened.

Voice from the Field | January 21, 2010

Haiti: "This Overwhleming Force"

It hurts to see so many injured children and adults, some of them screaming in pain when the nurse changes the dressing on their wounds. They have suffered serious burns, broken arms, and deep cuts in the skull. They have infected wounded, gangrenous limbs—and the list goes on.

 

Field News | January 21, 2010

Haiti: Focused on Emergency Treatment, Teams Also Begin New Efforts

MSF teams focussed on treating injured patients face new challenges, too, with the start of mobile clinics in the capital, of water provision, and of efforts to plan for post-operative care.

Press Coverage | January 21, 2010

Boing Boing: Haiti: How to Set up a Plug-and-play Hospital - Doctors Without Borders

This blog delivers an update of the inflatable hospital that MSF is setting up in Delmas, Haiti. It also features a video of the set up.

Press Coverage | January 20, 2010

CNN International: Doctor: Problems in Haiti

Christiane Amanpour talks to Doctors Without Borders about the problems they face trying to treat patients in Haiti.

Op-Eds & Articles | January 20, 2010

Le Monde Editorial: What Priorities in Haiti?

By Dr. Rony Brauman, is the former President of MSF in France and is currently a Research Director at CRASH, MSF's center for reflection on humnaitarian action.

Field News | January 20, 2010

Haiti: Treatment Continues Through Powerful Aftershock

On Wednesday morning, as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Haiti continued to work through long queues of patients waiting for treatment and surgery, the country was shaken anew by a powerful aftershock.

Voice from the Field | January 19, 2010

Haiti: Saving as Many People as We Can

Yesterday I visited the MSF operation at Trinite Hospital. There was a small baby, about six weeks old, lying on her side in her bed because her right arm had been amputated and was covered in bandages. The auxiliary nurse told me her story. Sad and miraculous. She had been in the hospital when the earthquake hit. The building was partially destroyed. This tiny little girl fell through concrete floors and walls. Somehow, she survived and was rescued from the rubble. No one knows where her mother is, though. Chances are she doesn't have a family anymore.

 

Op-Eds & Articles | January 19, 2010

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Trying to Save Lives in Port-Au-Prince

By Jeanne Cabeza,  MSF medical coordinator in Haiti, and Michelle Chouinard, MSF head of mission in Haiti

Field News | January 19, 2010

Haiti: MSF Rushing to Meet Patient Needs

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières staff in wards and operating theatres in Haiti are still working through very heavy caseloads while growing increasingly concerned about supply problems that threaten the welfare of patients. Drugs for surgical care, basic supplies for pre- and post-operative treatment, and equipment such as dialysis machines are urgently needed, but access problems for cargo shipments are causing delays in delivery.

Press Release | January 19, 2010

Doctors Without Borders Plane with Lifesaving Medical Supplies Diverted Again from Landing in Haiti

An MSF cargo plane carrying 12 tons of lifesaving medical supplies has been turned away three times from Port-au-Prince airport since Sunday night, despite assurances of its ability to land.

Press Coverage | January 19, 2010

The Washington Post: In Leogane, Haiti, Rebuilding Starts with Scavenging

Pete Buth, of Doctors Without Borders, offers a few words on the progress of the situation.

 

Transcript | January 18, 2010

Teleconference on Haiti Earthquake on January 18, 2010

Benoit Leduc, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operations manager for Haiti, and Loris de Filippi, MSF operational coordinator in Port-au-Prince, participated in a teleconference with press regarding MSF's response to the January 12, 2010, earthquake.

Field News | January 18, 2010

Haiti: Needs Grow as Efforts Expand, Resupply Needs Mount

MSF teams in Port-au-Prince are still under great pressure. While providing emergency care to as many people as possible, they are also searching for additional facilities that can serve as operating theaters and trying to get in more supplies. At the same time, MSF has been travelling to areas outside of the city and is about to extend the medical care to the people there.

Press Coverage | January 18, 2010

The New York Times: U.N. Likely to Send More Security

Article features comments made by Benoit Leduc, MSF aid manager, regarding the crisis in Haiti.

Press Coverage | January 18, 2010

The Wall Street Journal: Trying to Save Lives in Port-Au-Prince

An Op-Ed piece written by Jeanne Cabeza,  MSF medical coordinator in Haiti, and Michelle Chouinard, MSF head of mission in Haiti.

Press Release | January 17, 2010

Doctors Without Borders Cargo Plane With Full Hospital and Staff Blocked From Landing in Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince/Paris /New York, 17 January 2009—Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital surgical operations. Priority must be given immediately to planes carrying lifesaving equipment and medical personnel.

Field News | January 17, 2010

Haiti: Surgical Teams Work Around the Clock; Assessments of Other Affected Areas Planned

On the fifth day of their response to the disaster in Haiti, the MSF teams on the ground remain focused on trying to cope with the huge demand for lifesaving surgery.

Voice from the Field | January 17, 2010

Haiti: 'Patients who were not critical three days ago are now in critical phases'

"The situation remains critical. Few aid agencies are in place. Hundreds of bodies are still stuck in buildings. In the entire city, I've only seen about four or five trucks and cranes removing pieces of collapsed buildings so they can get the people out."

 

Field News | January 16, 2010

Haiti: MSF Surgical Activities Are Non-Stop; Needs Remain Huge

Surgical units set up by MSF in Port-au-Prince are working around the clock to treat the vast numbers of patients with injuries from Tuesday’s earthquake. Experienced MSF medical staff say they have never seen so many serious injuries.

Field News | January 15, 2010

Haiti: MSF Treats 2,000 Patients; Working to Expand Surgical Capacity

Surgery needs are huge; more than 300 patients in need of surgery have been tranferred from MSF's Martissant health center to Choscal hospital, a facility in the Cité Soleil district.

Transcript | January 15, 2010

Teleconference on Emergency Response to Haiti Earthquake on January 15, 2010

Stefano Zannini, head of mission for Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Haiti, spoke at a January 15 press teleconference about MSF's activities in Haiti following the earthquake.

Field News | January 15, 2010

Haiti: Logistics of MSF’s Intervention

Right now we still are struggling to treat patents in very rough conditions. The biggest problem is not having medical structures where we can treat them. But we have been able to find an open space big enough for the inflatable hospital that should arrive tomorrow. So we will have a 100-bed hospital with surgical capacity operation before the end of next week.

Field News | January 14, 2010

Haiti: MSF Treats More Than 1,000 Patients; Inflatable Hospital on the Way

MSF has treated more than 1,000 patients in four tented facilities. The primary concern at the moment is the overwhelming numbers of people who need immediate treatment and major surgery.

Field News | January 14, 2010

Haiti: MSF Teams Working to Fill Medical Care Gap After Earthquake

Dr. Greg Elder is the deputy operations manager for MSF in Haiti. Here he provides an update on the situation on the ground in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 24 hours after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the country leaving tens of thousands wounded and unknown number of dead.

Press Coverage | January 14, 2010

The Wall Street Journal: Health Risks Grow Among Quake Refugees

Dr. Greg Elder comments on the possibility of infectious diarrhea and the possible spread of other diseases. Additional quote by Kathryn Dedeiu, a water and sanitation engineer with Doctors Without Borders.

Press Coverage | January 13, 2010

MSNBC National: The Rachel Maddow Show

Rachel Maddow sits down with Sophie Delaunay and discusses the developing situation in Haiti.

Transcript | January 13, 2010

Press Conference on Emergency Response to Haiti Earthquake on January 13, 2010

"We have three general areas where we have been traditionally providing emergency care with infrastructure established to set up and provide for emergency services. All of those three centers have been severely affected in the earthquake and none of them are in a condition that we can use. One has completely collapsed and two others are so structurally damaged we cannot use them."

Field News | January 13, 2010

Haiti: MSF Teams Set up Clinics to Treat Injured After Facilities Are Damaged

The first reports are now emerging from MSF teams who were already working on medical projects Haiti and have treated hundreds of people injured in the quake. "The situation is chaotic," said one senior staff. "I visited five medical centers, including a major hospital, and most of them were not functioning."

Press Coverage | January 13, 2010

PBS Newshour: Medical Aid Unable to Reach Many Earthquake Victims

Greg Elder, MSF operations manager for Haiti, speaks about the emergency response.

Field News | January 13, 2010

MSF Activities in Haiti

Though its own facilities were severely damaged by the massive earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, MSF field staff have been establishing temporary clinics in order to treat injured men, women, and children. MSF was able to respond immediately because international and national staff had already been running several projects in country.

Press Coverage | January 13, 2010

Associated Press: Doctors Without Borders: Supplies and Staff Scarce

This is a brief update, featured in the New York Times, regarding the status of the MSF staff and hospitals.

Field News | January 12, 2010

MSF Responding to Devastating Earthquake in Haiti

On January 12, a magnitude 7.0 quake struck about 10 miles (15 kilometers) southwest of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. MSF teams on the ground have witnessed significant damage to its medical facilities, injuries to patients and staff, and an influx of wounded towards these hospitals in the capital.

Transcript | April 13, 2009

Haiti Donor Conference Press Teleconference

As Haiti’s prime minister, the UN Secretary General, representatives from more than 30 donor countries, and multilateral agencies convene tomorrow in Washington, D.C., to fund strategies for Haiti’s future economic and social development, they must not neglect the country’s immediate public health crisis. MSF calls on the Haitian government and international donors to immediately implement concrete measures to improve access to health care for the Haitian population.

Press Release | April 13, 2009

Haiti's Public Health System Failing Patients

Port-au-Prince/Paris/Amsterdam/Brussels/New York, April 13, 2009 – As Haiti’s prime minister, the UN Secretary General, representatives from more than 30 donor countries, and multilateral agencies convene tomorrow in Washington, D.C., to fund strategies for Haiti’s future economic and social development, they must not neglect the country’s immediate public health crisis, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF calls on the Haitian government and international donors to immediately implement concrete measures to improve access to health care for the Haitian population.

Press Coverage | April 13, 2009

CNN - In Haiti, Patients Despair of Adequate Health Care

The stream of patients arriving at the free clinic run by MSF in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is inundated with trauma cases daily.

Field News | February 4, 2009

Haiti: MSF Moves Emergency Obstetric Care Program to New Facility

Located on one of the busiest street corners of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the 75-bed Jude Anne Hospital has been operating well beyond its capacity since Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened the facilities in March of 2006.

Field News | December 6, 2008

Results of MSF's Nutrition Screening in Haiti

MSF's assessments of Haiti's nutritional situation have revealed small pockets of malnourished children, consistent with levels of chronic undernutrition found in the country before the recent hurricanes. However, none have shown high levels of malnutrition requiring a major scale-up of MSF’s nutritional programs.

Field News | November 21, 2008

Haiti: MSF Teams Assess the Nutritional Situation Across the Country

MSF medical teams are currently assessing the nutritional situation in several areas of the country. Since November 4, MSF medical doctors have been screening children in the mountain area of Baie d'Orange and Belle Anse, where authorities had reported children dead because of malnutrition in the previous weeks.

Alert Article | November 21, 2008

MSF Assists People Hit by Successive Storms

Between August 16 and September 1, Haiti was ravaged by Tropical Storm Fay, Hurricane Gustav, Tropical Storm Hanna, and Hurricane Ike. On September 4, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency team of medical staff, logisticians, and water and sanitation experts began arriving in the northwestern city of Gonaïves, which had been particularly hard-hit.

Field News | November 7, 2008

Haiti: MSF Treats People Wounded in School Collapse

MSF teams in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, are providing emergency care and treatment to people injured in the collapse of La Promesse School in the Petionville neighborhood of the city earlier today.

Press Release | November 6, 2008

Pregnant Women Desperate for Free Emergency Care in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, November 6, 2008 – Over the last month, hundreds of women have desperately sought emergency obstetric care at Jude-Anne hospital in Port-au-Prince. In October, hospital staff assisted a record high of 56 women giving birth in one day and received 160 women waiting for hospitalization. The hospital has been so overwhelmed by demand that mothers have given birth in the hospital’s waiting room, the staircases, and in the washrooms, essentially anywhere they could find space. For this 60-bed emergency hospital (including five delivery beds), with an average rate of 35 births per day, this is an untenable situation.

Press Coverage | October 27, 2008

PBS - The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer: Facing Hardship, Haiti Further Hurt by Hurricanes

Following devastating hurricanes, the NewsHour reports on MSF's humanitarian efforts in the hard hit north of the country.

Field News | October 23, 2008

Haiti: The Forgotten People of Praville

For several weeks, MSF helped support the Rabouteau Health Center in Gonaives. It reopened a hospital in another part of town while also organizing water distribution. MSF continues to witness difficult situations and documents the stories of some of the people still forgotten weeks after the last storm.

Press Release | October 2, 2008

Haiti: Survivors in Flooded Village Stranded with No Help

Port-au-Prince/New York, October 3, 2008 — A month after the last tropical storms and hurricanes hit Haiti, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams have found a whole village completely submerged and its 2,400 remaining inhabitants stranded with no help.

Field News | September 25, 2008

Haiti: People Living in Grim Post-Flood Conditions

With the floodwater now fully receded in storm-ravaged Gonaïves, the streets are covered in mud and garbage. People are living in harsh, dirty conditions without widespread access to clean water.

Field News | September 19, 2008

Haiti: Struggling to Survive After the Storms in Gonaives

"At the latest estimate, there were something like 60,000 people living without a house. All the bridges have collapsed around the town, and the roads are still impassable. Inside the town itself you can drive to some places, but to get to the town from outside is impossible—even big vehicles with caterpillar tracks can't get through."

Field News | September 16, 2008

Haiti: MSF Increases Medical Activities in Storm-Ravaged Areas

While flood waters in Gonaives have mostly receded, some parts of the devastated town remain inaccessible and many people have not had access to healthcare, clean water, and food for 15 days. An MSF team continues to support the Rabouteau Health Center in Gonaives, where more than 1,000 consultations have been carried out to date.

Field News | September 12, 2008

One Family's Plight in Storm-Ravaged Haiti

Lionel, a 22-year-old carpenter, was at home on September 1 with his wife, who was seven months pregnant, in the Brale area in Gonaïves, Haiti. At about 11 p.m., the water started rising. As it began to spread under the bed, they knew they had to move. Within two hours, the water was four meters above ground level.

Field News | September 11, 2008

Ongoing Needs in Hurricane-Damaged Haiti

Fourteen days after Tropical Storm Gustav made landfall, followed by Tropical Storm Hanna and then Hurricane Ike last week, many areas are still inaccessible in devastated Haiti.

Field News | September 8, 2008

Haiti: After Third Storm, Food and Water Urgently Needed for Displaced

Max Cosci, MSF head of mission in Haiti, describes the situation on the ground in Gonaïves after Haiti was hit by Hurricane Gustav, Tropical Storm Hanna, and Hurricane Ike.

Field News | September 7, 2008

MSF Assisting Haitians and Assessing Needs after Successive Hurricanes

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding the humanitarian needs brought about by a series of hurricanes and tropical that have struck Haiti. According to authorities, 25,000 to 30,000 houses were destroyed and up to 500 people have died nationwide. People have very little access to food and clean water, and major crops have been destroyed.

Field News | April 11, 2008

Haiti: MSF Treats Over 160 Victims of Violence in Port-au-Prince

As an eerie calm settled on the center of Port-au-Prince on April 10, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are continuing to receive patients suffering from trauma injuries, especially in the Martissant and Carrefour neighborhoods of the city.

Field News | April 9, 2008

MSF Treats Wounded amid Demonstrations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Since April 7, 2008, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have treated more than 31 wounded patients, including 15 people with gunshot wounds, in MSF-operated hospitals in the Haitian capital city, Port-au-Prince. Most of the patients were wounded when demonstrators in the city protested against rapidly increasing living costs, especially sharp increases in the price of basic food items.

Voice from the Field | October 30, 2007

Treating sexual violence in Haiti

An interview with Olivia Gayraud, a French emergency nurse, who helped open the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) 56-bed emergency medical and surgical program at St. Joseph's Hospital in Port-au-Prince in October 2004. In March 2007, she became head of mission at the project, which now inlcudes a program to treat victims of sexual violence with medical and mental health care.

Field News | August 11, 2006

New Wave of Violence Hits Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Renewed clashes in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince involving various armed groups —including United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Minustah) forces— has brought an abrupt end to the short respite from violence in the city since elections in February. In July 2006, MSF treated more than 200 gunshot victims at three medical facilities in Port-au-Prince: St. Joseph's trauma center in the Turgeau neighborhood, St. Catherine hospital in Cité Soleil, and Jude Anne Hospital in the Delmas area. This represents a 110 percent increase from gunshot-related admissions in June.

Field News | March 28, 2006

Providing Emergency Obstetrical Care in Haiti

The women of Haiti suffer from the highest maternal mortality rate in the Western hemisphere. Approximately 523 women die for every 100,000 who give birth. (In United States, 12 women die during the same number of births). To help prevent these deaths, MSF has started providing free, emergency care to women with high-risk pregnancies in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Field News | February 21, 2006

A Precarious Calm in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

The intense, escalating violence endured by people throughout Port-au-Prince from November 2005 to January 2006 was suddenly replaced by a fragile quiet in the days leading up to Haiti's presidential elections.

Press Release | January 19, 2006

Escalating Violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Inflicts Heavy Civilian Toll

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 19 January 2006 - With violent attacks intensifying and spreading to many parts of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on all armed groups in the city to respect the safety of civilians and allow those wounded during clashes to have immediate access to emergency medical care. The organization also called for the safety of national and international aid workers to be respected.

Voice from the Field | October 10, 2005

Supervising Operating Nurse Renilde Kanyange
"We were dealing with a lot of surgical trauma"

Until August 2005, 30-year old Renilde Kanyange was the supervising operating nurse for MSF's program providing emergency surgical care in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. Originally from Bujumbura, Burundi, she helped open the trauma center in December 2004.

Press Release | July 5, 2005

MSF Calls on All Armed Groups in Port Au Prince, Haiti to Respect Safety of Civilians

Port au Prince/New York, July 5, 2005 – As violent attacks intensify and spread in Haiti's capital Port au Prince, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on all armed groups in the city to respect the safety of civilians and allow those wounded during clashes immediate access to emergency medical care.

Field News | June 30, 2005

Violence Intensifies in Port au Prince, Haiti

Pierre Salignon, General Director of MSF in France, recently returned from a visit to Haiti. He describes the extreme violence reigning in Port au Prince's poorest neighborhoods and how the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Minustah)–far from restoring calm–has been drawn into a war against supporters of former President Aristide.

Speech | April 8, 2005

The Humanitarian Situation in Haiti

A Statement Delivered by Dr. Christophe Fournier, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), to the United Nations Security Council "Arria Formula" Meeting

Field News | April 1, 2005

Caught in Haiti's Crossfire

One bullet came to rest under Charles'* left jaw after ripping through the right side of his neck. Another bullet shot through Robert's chest and lodged in his ribcage next to his aorta. Yet another tore into 9-year-old Pierre's leg, exploded in fragments and broke his femur in two.

Voice from the Field | February 1, 2005

Dr. Jean-Paul Dixmeras
War Surgery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Dr. Jean-Paul Dixmeras, a surgeon from Paris and a member of the Board of Directors for the French section of MSF, recently returned from providing emergency surgical care in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.

Voice from the Field | November 15, 2004

Gabriel Salazar, MD
Tropical Storms and Political Violence in Haiti

Doctor Gabriel Salazar, an experienced MD with nearly 11 years' experience with MSF, flew directly from Colombia to Haiti last September when the country was devastated by tropical storm Jeanne.

Field News | October 24, 2004

Haiti Flood Waters Recede, Yet Needs Remain High

More than a month after floods killed thousands and left nearly 200,000 people homeless in Haiti's city of Gonaives, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams are now performing over 900 consultations each day.

Field News | September 23, 2004

Health Center Opened in Gonaives, Haiti

In response to the severe flooding that has hit the Haitian city of Gonaives, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has begun treating people at a newly opened health center in Raboteau, a slum in the western part of the city.

Press Release | September 22, 2004

Severe Flooding In Haiti

Port-au-Prince, September 22, 2004 - Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has mobilized to assist people overwhelmed by severe flooding in the city of Gonaives, on Haiti's northwest coast.

Field News | May 28, 2004

MSF physician Evi Eggers describes reaching villages devastated by flooding

Following heavy rainfalls last Sunday, villages in the border region between Haiti and the Dominican Republic were inundated. The heaviest flooding occurred early Monday morning, surprising people in their sleep. Many did not have the chance to escape.

Voice from the Field | March 15, 2004

Dr. Albert Tshiula
Haiti chéri, Haiti fâché - Saint-Marc, Haiti, After the Violence

Forty-year-old Dr. Albert Tshiula headed MSF's Emergency Response Team in DR Congo after several years as a national staff physician. He has been field coordinator for the MSF program in St. Marc, Haiti.

Press Release | March 8, 2004

MSF Treats Victims of Violence at Hospital in Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince/New York, March 8, 2004 - Following Sunday afternoon's shooting incident during a demonstration near the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, people wounded in the crossfire were brought to hospitals throughout the capital city. At Saint-François de Salle Hospital, in the center of the city, an MSF team provided free medical care to the incoming wounded.

Field News | March 1, 2004

Turmoil in Haiti

MSF re-launched its emergency response program in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince after widespread reports of killings and lootings limited MSF's ability to get to Saint François de Salle Hospital safely over the weekend.

Press Release | February 13, 2004

MSF Surgical Supplies and Teams in Haiti

Port-au-Prince / New York, February 13, 2004 - Today, the international medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is sending 16 tons of medical equipment to Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The supplies consist primarily of surgical and dressing kits for the MSF programs in the hospital of Saint Nicolas, in Saint-Marc, and Saint François de Salle Hospital, in Port-au-Prince. The MSF medical emergency program aims to ensure access to treatment for the people wounded during the massive demonstrations and other violent incidents that have been occurring almost daily since December 2003.

Field News | September 28, 1998

News for the Week of September 28, 1998