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Key trauma center in Haiti goes up in flames after gangs attack with Molotov cocktails

PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti’s only neurological trauma center for nearly 12 million people, an 87-bed hospital tucked down a narrow street off the airport road in Port-au-Prince, survived a powerful 2010 earthquake,…

John McCarthy December 19, 2024

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Haiti police veteran jailed for a killing that occurred while he was elsewhere, has been freed

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A senior police precinct chief in Haiti, jailed in the assassination of a motorcycle driver with alleged gang ties, has been freed from a Port-au-Prince jail along with…

John McCarthy November 29, 2024

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French medical charity suspends services in Haiti; cites death threats, attacks by police

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A French medical charity that is the only life-saving option for many Haitians at a time when escalating gang violence has shuttered hospitals and health clinics and sent…

John McCarthy November 24, 2024

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As Storm Looms, Medics Rush To Hospitals Overrun By Haiti Earthquake

LES CAYES — Doctors and aid workers rushed today to get flights to southwestern Haiti ahead of a looming storm, with hospitals in the devastated area unable to cope with…

Bro Bot August 16, 2021