PIH infectious disease expert on lessons learned, access, and equity around virus Posted on Aug 8, 2022 Dr. Marta Lado still remembers the early days of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone—how patients needlessly died of the disease and suffered stigma, discrimination, and lack of access to lifesaving medical care. Read more…
Cyclone’s torrential rains, floods left residents with limited access to safe drinking water Posted on May 31, 2022 The first case, diagnosed in early March, was a 57-year-old man from southern Malawi. The second, is an 11-year-old boy. Now, cholera, spreading through six districts in the south, has killed 12 Read more…
PIH Canada National Director, Mark Brender, argues changes are needed to put more autonomy and authority in hands of those caring for local communities Posted on February 2, 2022 It barely made the news, but a devastating tropical storm and cyclone swept through parts of Madagascar, Mozambique, and Malawi last Read more…
Heavy Rain, Strong Winds Cause Countrywide Blackouts, Destroy Schools, Bridges, and Roads Updated on Feb. 11, 2022 UPDATE: February 11 According to the latest national data on Tropical Storm Ana’s toll in Malawi, a total of 46 people have died, 18 remain missing, and 206 are injured. More than Read more…
The 5.3-magnitude quake is in same region as the August 2021 earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people Posted on Jan 24, 2022 On January 24 at 8:16 a.m., a 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti—only a few kilometers from the major quake in August 2021. The epicenter was in Miragoane, located Read more…
At least 13 patients triaged to Hinche, Mirebalais for specialized care Posted on Dec 16, 2021 Zanmi Lasante has received 13 burn victims at hospitals in Hinche and Mirebalais within the past 72 hours following a gas tanker explosion late Monday night in northern Haiti, which killed more than 70 Read more…
Support for survivors includes medical and mental health care Posted on Nov 28, 2021 Late in the evening of Friday, November 5, the phone calls began between Partners In Health staff in Sierra Leone: A car and a fuel tanker had collided in the capital city of Freetown, resulting in Read more…
Dr. Plantin, among the first cohort of emergency medicine graduates, helped lead the response Posted on Oct 9, 2021 Following the devastating earthquake on Aug. 14, Zanmi Lasante, as Partners In Health is known locally, sent a medical team to affected areas in southern Haiti to strengthen the support for survivors. Meanwhile, at Read more…
Proper treatment of broken bones, wounds, “crush injuries” means life or death for survivors Posted on Aug 21, 2021 The ticking clock of emergency care, and what it can mean for patients’ lives, is on the minds of every Partners In Health clinician caring for survivors of the devastating 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti Read more…
Aug. 14 earthquake damage staggering; many families in need of food, water, shelter Posted on Aug 20, 2021 Dr. Michelson Padovany, a surgeon for Partners In Health in Haiti, said he saw suffering families, collapsed buildings, and debris-filled roads everywhere he went on the country’s southern peninsula this week, visiting Read more…