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Harvard News OfficeNew Hospital Opens in Haiti's Plateau Central
By: Partners in Health
A new hospital opened in January in the Central Plateau of Haiti. Built through a partnership between the Haitian Ministry of Health and Zanmi Lasante with funding from AmeriCares, the new facility will help serve the communities of Lascahobas and Lacolline. Before the construction of the hospital, patients had literally flooded into a small, poorly-equipped health center.
“The people of Lascahobas and Lacolline, like all the people of Haiti, deserve modern health infrastructure,” said PIH Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer. “This facility was built by our team--which includes hundreds of people from this area--to keep a promise made in 2002: that PIH and Zanmi Lasante would work with the Ministry of Health to improve public infrastructure at the same time that we take care of the sick, prevent illness, and train people to provide modern health care to the underserved.”
Paul Farmer and Haitian President René Préval helped inaugurate the new Lacolline hospital.
Photographer: Rose Lincoln,
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Photographer: Rose Lincoln,
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