Photos by Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health Eddy Eustache, or Père Eddy as he’s most often called, is an ordained Catholic priest andpsychologist who has worked with Partners In Health for the past decade, providingmental health care to those in need in Haiti and all around the world Dr. Joia Read more…
Community Health Workers take part in agender-based violence workshop Rodeline’s letter, in original Creole It has been nearly a year since PIH Canada and our Haitian sister organization Zanmi Lasante (PIH/ZL) launched PIH’s first comprehensive program to treat and prevent gender-based violence in Haiti. While we can’t yet speak to Read more…
We asked three first-year residents at University Hospital of Mirebalais in Haiti to tell us about their mentors. Resident Name: Dr. Aurelie Gilles, First-year resident in Internal Medicine Mentor: Dr. Philip Cleophat, Director of Internal Medicine Why is this person your mentor? Dr. Philip Cleophat is passionate. He not only Read more…
Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health Dr. Thelisma Heber cares for a patient at the Cholera Treatment Center in Mirebalais, Haiti. Haiti is still grappling with a pernicious cholera epidemic nearly five years after the disease’s first appearance in the country. Cases spiked from 1,000 per month last summer Read more…
Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health Manoucheca Ketan holds her conjoined twin daughters before their separation at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, on Friday, May 22. Manoucheca Ketan lay on an exam table as her doctor spread warm goo over her expanded belly and methodically traced an ultrasound wand Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Rollins, Interim Chief Communications Officer rrollins@pih.org BOSTON (May 26, 2015)–Partners In Health and Zanmi Lasante, its sister organization in Haiti, are proud to announce that 6-month-old conjoined twin sisters were successfully separated on Friday, May 22, at University Hospital (HUM) in Mirebalais and are in Read more…
Stephanie Garry / Partners In Health Marie Myrka Amazan, the cross-site coordinator of continuing education for all PIH/ZL nurses, is based in Hinche and provides training “on anything that the nurses need.” Marie Myrka Amazan, 66, is the cross-site coordinator of continuing education for all nurses in the health clinics Read more…
While it’s important for victims of gender-based violence (GBV) to receive compassionate medical care, medical care alone isn’t nearly good enough. According to Dr. Eddy Jonas, head of women’s health for PIH’s Haitian sister organization Zanmi Lasante, a proper treatment and prevention program for victims of sexual or physical assault Read more…
Congratulations to Haiti’s firstemergency medicine residents! (left to right):Dr. Valery Pierre Louis, Dr. Mirrielle Bien Aime,Dr. Edrist Duneant, Dr. Sindy Altine,Dr. Faikha Colinet, Dr. Jimmy Plantin. A groundbreaking gift from Slaight Family Foundation is allowing Partners In Health to shape the future of emergency medicine in Haiti. This summer, six Read more…
Dr. Fabrice Julcéus knew of one family medicine residency in Haiti, and it was in Cap-Haïtien, a northern city far removed from the bustle of Port-au-Prince. So when he heard the announcement on Radio Caribe that a new residency would soon launch in the less remote St. Marc, he jumped Read more…