Roads lined with looted and charred buildings, gun smoke hanging in the air and the presence of heavily armed men and boys are stark reminders of the relentless violence consuming Haiti’s volatile capital. For humanitarian workers and medical providers inside Cité Soleil, the sprawling seaside slum long synonymous with poverty and gang warfare, they are also reminders of the dangers that lurk at every corner.
So when rumors began spreading Sunday inside Centre Hospitalier de Fontaine, a family-run hospital inside the slum, that armed gangs were advancing toward the facility, there was only one thing left to do as panic swept through.
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