Armed gangs in Haiti attacked the Bernard Mevs Hospital on Monday, December 16, 2024.

No patients were in the hospital at the time of the attack, which sent millions of dollars of equipment and investment up in flames. Courtesy of Harold Marzouka, Jr. Haiti’s only neurological trauma center for nearly 12 million people, an 87-bed hospital tucked down a narrow street off the airport road in Port-au-Prince, survived a powerful 2010 earthquake, a deadly coronavirus epidemic, kidnappings and, until this week, the gang violence that had forced many of the capital’s doctors and nurses to flee abroad.