'Plunged into chaos and violence:' Doctors Without Borders official details Haiti crisis

I want to bring in Sophie M, director of Doctors Without Borders in Haiti. Sophie, thank you so much for joining us this morning. What are the conditions on the ground right now in Portal Prince? Thanks for the invitation. The main OP at this time is. A city declared itself in CA and

violence

, in fact we have seen a large number of people injured and then thousands of people since the last 10 days in Po and then as we all know the state of emergency that now lasts a month with care until at least today will not help And then, when you say it is a state of

chaos

and

violence

, what does it look like?

Sophie, there are barricades in some areas, the streets are deserted, the population is trying to move in the sa places um we have a lot of uh um um displaced people in some gathering area uh in schools or in open places so uh the population is trying to find a safe place to move and then not be left in the middle. The tense situation is so tragic because there are very few places that the displaced population can go and not encounter

chaos

and violence. Your organization recently shared the results of a summer mortality survey that found that more than 40% of deaths in Haiti have been caused by violence, how much worse has it gotten in the last 48 hours or so?

I won't be able to tell you the total of how much it is, but what I can tell you are the consequences that we are seeing and then facing here and, for example, we have a trauma hospital that has been operating for a few years at that time it had a capacity of 750 50 beds, then we had to increase by 25%, so now we have a capacity of 70 beds. for our Pra hospital and at the same time we had to open a new one in our hospital in South Cor because we had more patients and more victims to come too, and then the admission was complicated, so we have to increase our capacity because, clearly , there are a large number of injured people who come every day only to think that you have to increase the capacity when you are literally in the same circumstances and conditions that the rest of the population lives under selfies, how?

Can the world help Haiti to try to find a way in which we can have a common understanding and acceptance here because in reality we are facing many problems and the consequence is the high violence that we are having here, so we need to have peace and we have a talk here to make sure that the population can live in peace and can travel peacefully in the city at the same time, we also have a lot of problems in terms of humanitarian response because since everything is closed uh, as you mentioned, the airport is closed. The port is also closed, so the entire supply is affected, for example, we have a clinic, we have a hospital, we have stock and a pharmacy, but if we do not have access to medicines in the end, we will end.

We have to empty our stock and then we won't be able to replenish it, so we also need to make sure we can access our site to bring in our supply. Thank you very much for being with us. It's one day. A very difficult normal day of work that you and the organization carry out these last few days has made it much more complicated and dangerous and I thank you for what you do, you appreciate it.