Médecins Sans Frontières announced the permanent closure of a key medical facility in Port-au-Prince in October 2025, seven months after the March suspension that had temporarily removed the facility from operation following attacks on MSF vehicles. The permanent closure represented a devastating loss for communities that had depended on the facility for trauma surgery, emergency medicine, and specialist care that was unavailable through any other accessible provider.
MSF cited the sustained insecurity in the area around the facility as the reason for the permanent closure, acknowledging that conditions had not improved sufficiently to allow safe resumption of operations and that the organization could not continue to maintain a facility it could not operate safely. The decision was made after months of assessing security conditions and concluding that no near-term improvement was likely.
The closure added to the pattern of humanitarian organization withdrawals from Port-au-Prince that had been accumulating through years of deteriorating security. Each withdrawal reduced the humanitarian coverage available to affected populations, creating gaps in service provision that remaining organizations could not fill and that Haitian public institutions lacked the capacity to address.
MSF maintained other operations in Haiti and committed to expanding them when security conditions permitted. The organization emphasized that its permanent closure of the specific facility was not a withdrawal from Haiti but a reallocation of its capacity to locations and functions where it could operate safely and effectively. The commitment did not undo the immediate loss of the closed facility’s services for the communities it had served.