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Miami Herald
Miami Herald
World
Jacqueline Charles

As Caribbean leaders meet to discuss Haiti, gang violence has new victim: a rural hospital

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Three weeks after seven police officers were killed in a single attack on a rural police station in Haiti’s Artibonite Valley, the repercussions are still being felt.

The latest casualty: the region’s main health care facility.

Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, which serves more than 700,000 people in the Artibonite Valley and Central Plateau regions, has suspended operations and implemented an emergency plan where it only accepts life-saving emergency cases.

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