Dr. Gerald Ekwen is not only the sole general surgeon at Partners In Health-supported J.J. Dossen Hospital in Harper, Liberia. He’s also the only surgeon in all of southeastern Liberia, where in Maryland County alone, PIH serves a population of about 170,000. People also come to J.J. Dossen from neighbouring Read more…
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…
Ben Huntley / Partners In Health The newborns rest at Partners In Health-supported J.J. Dossen Hospital in Liberia earlier this month. On a hot and humid Monday in early December, 28-year-old Elizabeth Sieh climbed the handful of stairs to her neighborhood health center in southern Liberia and nurses in the Read more…
Photo by Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health A view of the PIH-supported J.J. Dossen Hospital campus in Maryland County, Liberia. Last month a 6-year-old girl in remote Maryland County, Liberia, was climbing a tree, as many do during mango season, and fell from a high branch. Her forearm 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…
Surgical residents participate in early morning rounds at University Hospital, under the guidance of Dr. Mac Lee Jean Louis, director of surgery. Dr. Mac Lee Jean Louis is the director of surgery at University Hospital in Mirebalais, which Partners In Health operates in partnership with Haiti’s Ministry of Health. Born and Read more…
When health professionals dedicated to serving the poor speak of their work being a privilege, it’s patients like Naika Francine and her father Losamma that they have in mind. Naika was born three years ago with two holes in her heart. She was a thin and underweight baby – a Read more…