Haiti: Doctors Without Borders halts work in Port-au-Prince The NGO said its staff had been threatened with rape and death by Haitian police, forcing it to shut down some of the few functioning healthcare centers in the capital.
MSF has been present in Haiti for three decades
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Tuesday said that it was suspending operations in the Haitian capital amid “violence and threats” towards its staff from members of the police force.
In a statement, MSF said that the police had repeatedly stopped its vehicles and directly threatened staff with death and rape threats.
“We are used to working in conditions of extreme insecurity in Haiti and elsewhere, but when even law enforcement becomes a direct threat, we have no choice but to suspend our projects,” MSF’s Haiti mission chief Christophe Garnier said.
MSF said that operations in Port-au-Prince and the adjoining metropolitan area will be suspended starting Wednesday and “until further notice.”
The NGO said its staff had been threatened with rape and death by Haitian police, forcing it to shut down some of the few functioning healthcare centers in the capital.
MSF has been present in Haiti for three decades now
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Tuesday said that it was suspending operations in the Haitian capital amid “violence and threats” towards its staff from members of the police force.
In a statement, MSF said that the police had repeatedly stopped its vehicles and directly threatened staff with death and rape threats.
“We are used to working in conditions of extreme insecurity in Haiti and elsewhere, but when even law enforcement becomes a direct threat, we have no choice but to suspend our projects,” MSF’s Haiti mission chief Christophe Garnier said.
MSF said that operations in Port-au-Prince and the adjoining metropolitan area will be suspended starting Wednesday and “until further notice.”
