Doctors Without Borders opened a trauma center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in November 2019 amid ongoing economic, political turmoil and violence in the country. The facility focuses on treating major traumas like fractures and gunshot wounds consistent with the unrest. Tensions had been rising since September 2019, prompting Doctors Without Borders to open the facility and quickly expand its 25 bed capacity due to high patient numbers.

1. Amid Haiti Violence, Doctors Without Borders Opens Trauma
Center
Rao Chalasani

2. Introduction
Rao Chalasani is a New Jersey resident with vast experience as a technology executive,
having worked with financial firms throughout the New York, NY, area, such as Bank of
America-Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, and JP Morgan Chase. Additionally, Rao Chalasani
has long supported the medical relief efforts of Doctors Without Borders.

3. Economic and political turmoil in Haiti has created a health care crisis that has prompted
Doctors Without Borders to open a trauma center in Port-au-Prince. The facility began
accepting patients in November 2019, and is focused on treating major traumas such as
compound fractures and gunshot wounds. These are injuries consistent with the ongoing
violent unrest in the country, and ones that existing medical infrastructure was unable to
address.

4. Tensions in the country have been rising since September 2019, which is what
prompted Doctors Without Borders to open the facility. First equipped with only 25
beds, the facility quickly made efforts to double its capacity based on the number of
cases it was seeing. For more information on Doctors Without Borders and its
humanitarian medical relief efforts worldwide, visit www.doctorswithoutborders.org