‘It is simply best not to get pregnant’: women left terrified as Haiti’s maternity services collapse
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Delivering a baby was already risky, but an unprecedented surge in gang violence has forced clinics and hospitals to closeThe worst fears of midwives at Heartline Haiti were realised last week. As they prepared the maternity clinic for patients that evening, armed men laid siege to their neighbourhood in eastern Port-au-Prince, spraying bullets at police and rival gangs, setting cars on fire and ransacking houses.“All of our staff were huddled in an interior hallway hearing the noises outside...

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