Kidnappers took his staff, then his son. But this Haiti doctor is refusing to flee

Dr Jean William ‘Bill’ Pape runs free health services and says people’s needs cannot wait for an end to the gang warfare that is tearing the country apart

Years of gang warfare have shuttered his country’s health system. About 700,000 people have had to leave their homes, many to live in tents. His son was abducted and held by a gang for months and his medical staff, those who have not fled, are regularly kidnapped.

Dr Jean William “Bill” Pape believes Haiti has now reached its lowest point: “I don’t think we can get any lower.” But people’s needs will not wait for an end to the violence, says the founder of the Gheskio (Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections) network of health clinics.

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