ABC News visited the hospital recently, speaking to nurses and patients about the unprecedented levels of gang violence plaguing Haiti's capital city.
In this Jan. 25, 2023, file photo, a man who was shot in his left foot by a stray bullet, lies on a bed at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in the Tabarre neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Gang-related violence has reached levels not seen in years,"touching near all segments of society," said Helen La Lime, U.N. special envoy for Haiti, in a late January Security Council meeting.
When security guards opened the door to let them in, 20 gunmen burst into the facility, according to MSF. They demanded the staff show them where the gunshot victim was. They found him being treated in an operating room, forcing doctors and nurses to stand aside as they carried him out of the hospital.
"There is such contempt for human life among the conflicting parties, and such violence in Port-au-Prince, that even the vulnerable, sick and wounded are not spared," said Mahaman Bachard Iro, head of MSF's programs in Haiti. "How are we, the health workers, supposed to be able to continue providing care in this environment?"
When ABC News spoke to the head nurse there a few weeks ago, she said gunshot victims are more common these days than those from car accidents.
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