AP provided the first board look at how the country’s crisis of violence is affecting its public health care sector. We used anecdotes and hard data to show that a culture of impunity is undermining the health care system by driving away doctors, terrorizing hospital staff, and in some cases, leading to emergency room slayings. We hung the story on a hospital killing that scandalized a country that is mostly sleepwalking through a homicidal bloodbath. Through intense source work, we were able to publish the only eyewitness account. The government, which almost always ignores the foreign press, responded to the story two days after it was published.
