Built in 1984, the Haitian Community Hospital is managed by the Haitian Health and Education Foundation (FHASE), a non-government and non-profit foundation created in 1972. Through its public health programs, outpatient clinics, and 75-bed inpatient hospital, HCH has provided quality care to upwards of 80,000 people annually. It is committed to and accessible to the [...]
By Gilou Hudicourt
On January 12, 2010, Julienne was a young second-year Accounting Student at University Lumiere on Ave O in Port-au-Prince. Her classroom was on the top floor of a four story concrete building. She was sitting in the front row. Her class contained about 40 students and there were several hundred other students in [...]
By Josiane Hudicourt-Barnes
It’s been two months since the earthquake now, two months since I’ve been hanging out at HCH every day. I am not a doctor. What could possibly have kept me busy at a hospital.
The beginning of the crisis was completely crazy. My sister, Brigitte, had gone to the [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
There was a long steady rain during the night in Frères. We needed the rain but as I keep telling my son Max, in Haiti people are not ready. We are almost never ready for the situations that we know are going to happen. We only react after the [...]
On Sunday evening, I drove into the Haitian Community Hospital’s yard and I was shocked by how quiet and empty it was. Most of the tents that were serving as outdoor hospital rooms were gone. The French medical crew had made a deal to donate some of the tents to patients who needed [...]
We have turned to some other phase at l’Hopital de la Communauté Haitienne. The flow of patient has not stopped but is different. We still receive people all day, some of them have been walking on fractures for two weeks, but for the most part the major open fractures…, and head injuries are not coming [...]
Built in 1984, the Haitian Community Hospital is managed by the Haitian Health and Education Foundation (FHASE), a non-government and non-profit foundation created in 1972. Through its public health programs, outpatient clinics, and 75-bed inpatient hospital, HCH has provided quality care to upwards of 80,000 people annually. It is committed to and accessible to the most disadvantaged sections of the area. Given its geographic position and services, Haitian Community Hospital aims to serve a population of 250,000 people, mainly from the communes of Pétion-ville (283,052 inhabitants) and Delmas (679,650 inhabitants).
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