New director boosts training, envisions residency program to improve cancer diagnoses, treatment Posted on February 15, 2023 In November, when Dr. Marie Djenane José arrived for her first day on the job as director of the pathology lab at Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais (HUM), she was surprised to find a Read more…
The achievement will strengthen the country’s mental health care resources, staff Posted on November 3, 2022 The Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital (SLPTH) has received a formal 5-year accreditation for the first-ever psychiatry residency program in the country. With this accreditation, Sierra Leone will be able to train its own Read more…
Alumni reflect on Global Nurse Executive Fellowship Posted on May 9, 2022 Growing up in rural Rwanda, Florence Musabyemariya used to get sick as a child and “really feared infection.” It was always nurses, she says, who calmed her and helped her feel safe to continue her treatments and check-ups, Read more…
Ten nurse leaders accepted to yearlong leadership program Posted on May 9, 2022 Gladys Mtalimanja Banda was familiar with health care long before she became a nurse midwife. She had malaria as a child and the hospital quickly became her second home. Among her frequent visits, one trip in particular stands out. 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…
Nurse training program shares expertise in cancer care through cross-site collaboration Posted on Nov 27, 2021 In 2014, when the Ebola outbreak was declared in Liberia and other West African countries, people were warned that the disease was devouring everything in its path. For many, it seemed like madness to stand against such a lethal Read more…
Faster registration and better access to medical records are streamlining care at the rural hospital, and are hallmarks of PIH’s multi-country effort to improve how health data is collected, stored and used.
Dr. Edrist Duneant, an Emergency Medicine resident, practices bagginga pediatric mannequin with nurses from the Emergency Department. In October 2014, University Hospital of Mirebalais welcomed six residents into the first and only emergency medicine residency program in Haiti. A second class of six residents entered in the fall of 2015. Read more…