Zanmi Lasante
Coordinates: 18°56′8″N 71°59′36″W / 18.93556°N 71.99333°W
Zanmi Lasante is a sister organization to the Boston-based Partners In Health that operates out of Cange in central Haiti. The name, Zanmi Lasante, means Partners In Health in Kreyòl.[1] It was built in 1985 to treat patients incapable of paying hospital fees.[2][3] Its facilities include two operating wards, "adult and pediatric inpatient wards, an infectious disease center, an outpatient clinic, a women's health clinic (Proje Sante Fanm), ophthalmology and general medicine clinics, a laboratory, a pharmaceutical warehouse, a Red Cross blood bank, and radiographic services." It currently has eight sites in the area of the central plateau of Haiti and serves over 500,000 people.[2]
Services cost the equivalent of about eighty American cents for everyone "except for women and children, the destitute, and anyone seriously injured." Additionally, no one may be turned away.[4]
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- notes
- ^ Kidder 2003, p. 19.
- ^ a b "Official PIH website on Zanmi Lasante". PIH.org. 2010-01-12. http://www.pih.org/pages/haiti. Retrieved 2011-03-17.
- ^ Kidder 2003, pp. 1–301.
- ^ Kidder 2003, p. 21.
- sources
- Kidder, Tracy (2003). Mountains Beyond Mountains. New York: Random House Publishing Group. pp. 1–300. ISBN 0812973011. http://books.google.com/?id=XifdzgU9ilsC&pg=PP1. Retrieved 2011-03-17.
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