Article 6SCTF MSF aid workers ‘heartbroken’ as charity forced to halt services in Haitian capital after repeated attacks

MSF aid workers ‘heartbroken’ as charity forced to halt services in Haitian capital after repeated attacks

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Luke Taylor
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For the first time in over 30 years Medicins Sans Frontieres halts activity leaving 2 million people in Port-au-Prince without vital healthcare

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said its aid workers are heartbroken" after the medical NGO was forced to suspend all of its healthcare services in Port-au-Prince for the first time in three decades, leaving Haitians in the violence-ravaged capital without a critical lifeline.

The international non-profit said it had no choice but to halt all operations on Wednesday after staff were repeatedly attacked and received death threats from armed vigilantes and the national police.

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