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Port-au-Prince, Haiti – June 2007
In December 2006, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a project in Martissant; a deprived slum of Port-au-Prince, where armed groups are fighting among themselves to control the zone. The MSF facility provides emergency care to the local population, were no other health facilities exist in the whole neighbourhood. Patients wounded by gunshots, by machete, victims of car accidents and general casualties are seen every day by MSF doctors and nurses. Since the beginning of the project MSF has visited more than 1,000 patients. Patients in need of a second level of care are transferred to other MSF facilities of the city: the trauma centre of La Trinité; the Obstetric Care Hospital of Solidarité and the St. Catherine Hospital located in Cité Soleil.