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Among the many losses this country has endured, the Medical and Nursing schools were destroyed, halting what already felt like too slow a pipeline for health providers. PIH has a total of 12 hospitals across the country, all the way from the border of the Dominican Republic and across to the coast of the land mass they cohabit. The maternal mortality rate (MMR) here was approximately 600 per 100,000 live births in 2008, but some estimates say as many as 1 in 9 women living in rural Haiti will die from pregnancy-related causes during her lifetime. On either account, Haiti’s rates are on par with some of the world’s highest burdened countries and ranks it as one of the most risky places in the western hemisphere for poor women to give birth. Over the course of our stay in Haiti, we visited four of Zanmi Lasante’s (Partners in Health in Creole) hospitals. Our first stop was La Colline Hospital, located about 70 miles west of Port-au-Prince. Given the national holiday, the facility was quiet but we still had the chance to see a well-equipped, solar powered refuge for patients in the area. PIH/ZL has a strong commitment to the true meaning of partnership and so builds its facilities as public facilities, working in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The land where La Colline was built was actually donated by the community to the Ministry and then the Ministry invited Zanmi Lasante to build there.  Christy Turlington Burns: Every Mother Is a Mother

Among the many losses this country has endured, the Medical and Nursing schools were destroyed, halting what already felt like too slow a pipeline for health providers. PIH has a total of 12 hospitals across the country, all the way from the border of the Dominican Republic and across to the coast of the land mass they cohabit. The maternal mortality rate (MMR) here was approximately 600 per 100,000 live births in 2008, but some estimates say as many as 1 in 9 women living in rural Haiti will die from pregnancy-related causes during her lifetime. On either account, Haiti’s rates are on par with some of the world’s highest burdened countries and ranks it as one of the most risky places in the western hemisphere for poor women to give birth.

Over the course of our stay in Haiti, we visited four of Zanmi Lasante’s (Partners in Health in Creole) hospitals. Our first stop was La Colline Hospital, located about 70 miles west of Port-au-Prince. Given the national holiday, the facility was quiet but we still had the chance to see a well-equipped, solar powered refuge for patients in the area. PIH/ZL has a strong commitment to the true meaning of partnership and so builds its facilities as public facilities, working in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The land where La Colline was built was actually donated by the community to the Ministry and then the Ministry invited Zanmi Lasante to build there. 

Christy Turlington Burns: Every Mother Is a Mother

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