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Michelly Teixeira

Gangs Destroys Haiti's Last Neurological Trauma Center As Violence Continues To Spiral

Vital medical resources were devastated, worsening the country’s already dire health and security situation. (Credit: AFP)

Haiti's Bernard Mevs Hospital, the country's only neurological trauma center left, was set on fire by criminal gangs, devastating a critical medical facility that had served the country's nearly 12 million people.

The 87-bed hospital, located in Port-au-Prince, had survived past crises, including the 2010 earthquake and a deadly Covid-19 outbreak. But it could not withstand the ongoing violence unleashed by gang members, who attacked the facility with Molotov cocktails.

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