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Doctors in Port-au-Prince try to save lives as the bloodshed accelerates in the face of a powerless international security force
Tom Phillips and Etienne Côté-Paluck in Port-au-Prince
Sat 9 Nov 2024 10.00 GMT
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.
“We had one yesterday – it was an 81-year-old man who was going about his business and … then his life changes,” said James Gana, a Nigerian doctor who runs the unit for the French NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
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