Jean-Fabrice Pietri
Project coordinator, MSF

60 % of the cases that we have received since the opening are gunshot wounds. That clearly says something about the endemic violence in this country.

Since July 2018, Haiti has experienced political instability

MSF opened a trauma hospital in Port-au-Prince on November 27, 2019

We knew we were meeting a need here, in terms of serious and urgent cases, but obviously the situation is even worse than we imagined, so we will have to adapt quickly enough and go faster than we had anticipated.

In less than two weeks, the number of patients exceeded the hospital's initial capacity of 25 beds

We treat serious trauma cases, with orthopedic and visceral surgery cases, for gunshot wounds, stab wounds, open fractures ...

We want to focus on patients who need lifesaving care, because we do not have unlimited capacity and we want to mobilize our resources for the most important cases.

More than 100 patients
have been admitted by MSF's teams

There are very few hospital beds for trauma care in Port-au-Prince. We see that there is a huge deficit in the Haitian health system for the management of the most serious cases.

I believe that there really needs to be awareness at the national and international level of the critical need to support Haitian hospitals.

THE MSF HOSPITAL IN TABARRE SPECIALIZES IN LIFESAVING EMERGENCY CARE FOR PATIENTS WOUNDED BY GUN VIOLENCE, STABBINGS OR TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
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