In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the Tabarre Hospital, run by Doctors Without Borders, represents a critical, yet impermanent medical facility amidst the collapsing health infrastructure. The hospital is a makeshift collection of shipping containers, surrounded by rampant violence as armed groups seize control of the capital. With the country amidst political instability and rampant crime, including severe human rights violations, the situation for civilians remains dire. Doctors Without Borders' presence underscores the urgent need for medical care, though the future of such facilities remains uncertain in a country where peace feels increasingly distant.
The facility has an air of impermanence to it. That is deliberate. Doctors Without Borders had always hoped that, at some point, it would not be needed in Haiti.
The mechanical cough of automatic gunfire is now a regular sound in the streets of the capital, where armed groups control up to 90 percent of Port-au-Prince.
Haiti's health system has almost completely collapsed, and Tabarre is one of the few trauma hospitals left open in the capital.
Trapped in the middle of the uncertainty and violence is a desperate, traumatised civilian population, as armed groups fight for control.
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