Partners In Health has installed over 200 solar panels nationwide Posted on Oct 27, 2023 Ruth Vázquez once had to attend births by the light of a cell phone. Now, the Masisea resident can use the facility lights 24/7, thanks to solar panels installed by Socios En Salud, as Partners Read more…
PIH repairs oxygen system through BRING O2 partnership Posted on March 21, 2023 Leoncio Carrión was struggling to breathe. The 78-year-old was battling pulmonary fibrosis, his breaths becoming shorter by the day, and had arrived at the hospital gasping for air. Had he come just weeks earlier, he may not Read more…
The laboratory provides essential health services for thousands of people in the region Posted on February 15, 2023 For years, the Pleebo Health Center laboratory consisted of a single room. In that room, limited medical testing occurred for more than 50,000 Liberians. Although the laboratory was functional, it faced many Read more…
Renewable energy ensures reliable power for lifesaving care in remote regions Posted on June 14, 2022 When the power goes out in a hospital, the lights aren’t the only thing that could shut off. A power outage could disrupt surgeries and disable lifesaving medical equipment, including oxygen concentrators keeping patients Read more…
PIH expands support to remote community health centers Posted on May 9, 2022 After centuries of extraction by foreign powers, Sierra Leone remains resource-rich but cash-poor, with little to spend on its population’s health. This injustice takes an extreme, visceral form in Kono District, where West Africa’s largest diamond mine Read more…
Boosting capacity to store, deliver temperature-sensitive tests, drugs, and vaccines Posted on Dec 23, 2021 Debates about sharing vaccine patents continue to grab headlines, but the race to supply and administer COVID-19 vaccines around the world, particularly to the most marginalized and remote communities, is about far more than intellectual Read more…
Comprehensive investments from PIH mean higher-quality care for rural patients Posted on July 2, 2021 This April, Elizabeth Momoh delivered her fifth child at Sewafe Community Health Center in Kono District, Sierra Leone. “Ah so gladi,” she said in Krio, during her last prenatal appointment before her due date. “I’m Read more…
Community members helping PIH staff carry patients over a footbridge to reach facility that serves 8,500 people in isolated region Posted March 11, 2021 The collapse of a bridge on the lone road to an isolated health center high in the mountains of Lesotho has Partners In Health teams finding Read more…
Lesotho health leaders said the country’s first medical oxygen plant is a landmark for building a stronger health system during COVID-19 and beyond A new oxygen plant installed at Partners In Health supported Botšabelo Hospital is the first such facility in Lesotho and will save lives during the respiratory COVID-19 pandemic Read more…