University Hospital in Mirebalais opened its doors on March 19, 2013, and quickly became a hub of care for the Central Plateau and a magnet for patients from across Haiti. (Photo by Cecille Joan Avila) Six years have passed since University Hospital in Mirebalais opened its doors and began transforming Read more…
One morning in July 2014, Bizinde Elyse noticed that his right knee was painful and swollen. A native of Nyamasheke District in Rwanda’s Western Province, Elyse brushed it off, assuming he had played football too roughly with friends at school and the swelling soon would go down. To his alarm, Read more…
Five days a week at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, dozens of patients flow through the oncology ward for doctors’ visits, chemotherapy, and consultations with the team’s social worker or psychologist. The vast majority are women, and many—450 in 2018 alone—are in various stages of battling breast cancer. For Breast Read more…
Marana Toussaint, 37, visited University Hospital near her home in Mirebalais, Haiti, after finding a small lump in her left breast. Oldine Deshommes (background), a PIH social worker, supported her throughout her care. (Photo by Cecille Joan Avila / Partners In Health) It all started with a pain in her Read more…
Since 2012, a Partners In Health-supported public hospital in northern Rwanda has treated thousands of patients for breast cancer, lymphomas, and more. But even Butaro Hospital has struggled to treat late-stage cancers and other conditions needing radiation therapy. Like many developing countries, Rwanda lacks a $4 million radiation therapy machine. Read more…
The demands of family and farm leave little time to worry about it. And anyway, it’s probably just from breastfeeding. But after a couple of weeks, the 35-year-old mother walks over to chat with her neighbor, a community health worker, about the hard little knot near her armpit. Concerned, the Read more…
Dr. Ruth Damuse, oncology program director for Partners In Health’s Haitian sister organization, Zanmi Lasante, helped establish PIH/ZL’s formal cancer care in Haiti. Zanmi Lasante’s oncology program started at its hospital in Cange in the Central Plateau and now serves patients at University Hospital in Mirebalais. The hospital sees an Read more…