Haiti violence pushes MSF trauma hospital to its limits

The nightmare of violence suffered by Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, has brought its health system to the limit. The UN has warned that more than 60% of the city’s hospitals are not operational, while the organization Médecins Sans Frontières has reported on Tuesday that its trauma hospital in Tabarre, one of the last in the capital, has exceeded its capacity. In Tabarre, north of the capital, it lives more than 130,000 people and is one …

Haiti violence pushes MSF trauma hospital to its limits

Haiti violence pushes MSF trauma hospital to its limits One of the last remaining hospitals in Haiti’s capital city may soon be unable to take on any more patients. Kate Rankin May 5 2025, 1:42pm Tabarre Hospital, run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is one of the last hospitals in the capital city, where armed groups are coordinating attacks on several areas that were previously beyond their control. If the hospital’…

The extreme violence in Haiti’s capital and the lack of operational medical structures will bring to the limit the capacity of the Medical Without Borders Traumatology Hospital (MSF) in Tabarre, in the north of the city, the organization warned on Tuesday. This would generate “an even more desperate situation for the inhabitants of the city whose access to surgical care would be reduced considerably,” he stressed in an MSF statement, which warne…