About 100 meters from the MSF hospital in Drouillard, the ambulance transporting three juvenile gunshot victims was halted, and the patients were taken to a public hospital.
At least two patients were killed, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), after their ambulance was ambushed and stopped earlier this week in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.
When “members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers” stopped the ambulance on Monday, the MSF workers reported on Wednesday that they were brutally abused.
About 100 meters (yards) from the MSF hospital in the Drouillard neighborhood of the city, the ambulance carrying three young people who had been shot was stopped, forcing the patients to be transferred to a public hospital, according to MSF.
Before taking the ambulance to the hospital, the group said that police tried to arrest the patients. Once there, “law enforcement officers and members of a self-defence group surrounded the ambulance, slashed the tires, and tear-gassed MSF staff inside the vehicle to force them out.”
According to the group, at least two of the injured individuals were put to death after being transported a short distance away.
“The act is a shocking display of violence and it seriously calls into question MSF’s ability to continue delivering essential care to the Haitian people,” said Chief of Mission Christophe Garnier.
