AzG says in a statement that the hospital itself has not been targeted by the gangs, but that it is on the front line now that war scenes are played out a few meters from the hospital. This has already cost lives: a child on a ventilator has died when patients had to be transported because of shots fired around the building, and a man has been shot dead crossing the street in front of the hospital.
Earlier this year, MSF closed a hospital just outside Port-au-Prince after a patient was shot dead as he left the emergency room. The aid organization emphasizes that it will remain active in violence-ravaged Haiti. AzG runs mobile aid stations there, centers for pregnant women and babies and a clinic where gunshot wounds are treated and victims of sexual violence, a common crime during gang violence, are assisted.