Catherine's Hospital in Cite Soleil, a sprawling slum of about a quarter of a million people in the city's waterfront.

NPR: Dodging Bullets to Vote in Haiti's Cite Soleil

Lionel Victor says he left his home in Cite Soleil at four AM to walk the two miles to his designated polling station in Delma.

NPR: Haitians Flock to Vote in National Elections

PHILIPPE(Doctors Without Borders): Because yesterday was a confrontation between armed groups and U.N. troops in (unintelligible) north of Cite Soleil, our usual way to entering is Cite Soleil, so we changed today the way to enter.

NPR: Dodging Bullets to Vote in Haiti's Cite Soleil

This has become even more difficult in recent times because of the increase of the kidnapping business in this city when the gangs found in Cite-Soleil the hiding place to put their victims.

NPR: Haitians Protest Instability Ahead of Elections

And what you see normally if you come here is a peaceful place, except for the areas that surround the famous Cite-Soleil, Vitto Ville(ph) or shantytown, where around 200, 000 people live in impossible conditions and where gangs control the place.

NPR: Haitians Protest Instability Ahead of Elections