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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tom Phillips and Etienne Côté-Paluck in Port-au-Prince

‘It’s indescribable’: the hospital on the frontline of Haiti’s devastating gang war

A nurse tends to a woman's arm
A nurse tends to a patient inside the MSF hospital in Port-au-Prince as gangs fight outside. Photograph: Odelyn Joseph/The Observer

It was mid-morning in central Port-au-Prince and already two shooting victims had been rushed into the hospital past a mural instructing visitors to leave machetes and rifles outside.

The two men – a 60-year-old accountant and a 29-year-old electrician – sat in the trauma centre’s “shock room” being patched up as the city around them fell apart.

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