Headline : Whatever happened to ... the doctors who stand by their patients in gang-ridden Haiti?

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A hospital worker shows the damage inside Fontaine Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, three days after an armed attack forced its closure last fall. Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

In March, Haiti began convulsing with violence stemming from heavily armed street gangs that took control of the country. The groups closed the airport, freed several thousand prisoners and demanded that Prime Minister Ariel Henry step down — which he did. We interviewed physicians and nonprofits in Haiti at the time and published an article about the disastrous impacts on access to routine and long-term health care.

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Now, almost six months later, the gang violence continues even after the arrival of 400 Kenyan police officers to serve as an international peacekeeping force. The UN Migration Agency reports that some 5% of Haitians are now internally displaced — over half a million people as gang warfare continues, We spoke to representatives of health-care organizations about the continuing challenges of providing basic medical services.

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