Emergency

L'Hôpital Universitaire Justinien is the main hospital in the second largest Haitian city Cap-Haitien. The hospital is named after a local magistrate Justinien Etienne who is credited for its foundation in 1890 as a hospice that was subsequently transformed into a hospital in 1920 during the occupation of the United States in Haiti. Today, it is a teaching hospital with 250 inpatient beds with training facilities for around 60 students in diverse disciplines such as family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, general surgery, urology, orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology and otolaryngology. The hospital has a pharmacy, laboratory and radiology services for both outpatients and inpatients. With some financial supports from state and private organizations, the hospital provides some level of free medical care in addition to its fee-based services.

Contact: Rue 17 Q, Cap Haïtien, Haiti. Tel: 2262-1205 / 1206/ 0512/ 2262-1495; Email: michachou2005@yahoo.f

Some additional Hospitals in Departement Nord that are near Hospital Universitaire Justinien:
Hospital Universitaire Justinien, Cap-Haïtien
Hospital Sacré Coeur, Milot - supported by the CRUDEM Foundation
Hospital Bon Samaritain, Limbé
Alyans Sante Borgne, Borgne

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Hospital Sacré Coeur (HSC) with 122 beds is the largest private hospital in the town of Milot in the Northern Haiti. It was constructed by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart of the Montreal Province (founder of CRUDEM or Center for the Rural Development of Milot) in 1986. However, 'the Hôpital Sacré Coeur' they built was a simple building with an operating room without any equipment or surgeon. The building gradually took the shape of a real hospital when Dr. Ted Dubuque, a surgeon from St. Louis, Missouri joined there in 1986. Dr. Dubuque had promised God that if he recovers from a near fatal illness that he was once suffering, he would spend his life helping others. He was cured and kept his promise. He traveled to Milot, spent six months at HSC and performed 250 surgeries during his first visit. The hospital statistics for the year 2013: 49,743 outpatient visits, 5,906 hospital admissions, 119,076 laboratory tests, 2,966 X-rays processed, 1,236 newborn deliveries, 1,956 surgical procedures, 11,143 patients tested for HIV, 178 children treated as inpatients for severe malnutrition. Every year CRUDEM publishes the schedule of their visiting surgeons on their website.

Contact by Email at: info@crudem.org.

Some additional Hospitals in Departement Nord:
Hospital Universitaire Justinien, Cap-Haïtien
Hospital Bon Samaritain, Limbé
Alyans Sante Borgne, Borgne

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Hôpital Bon Samaritan (HBS) was founded in 1953 as a very basic Christian outpatient clinic and grew to be one of Haiti's principal health centers under the guidance of late William H. Hodges, MD. The hospital is a project under the Fondation HBS which is a non-profit organization partly sponsored by HBS Foundation Inc, Florida. The 130 bed facility of the hospital has above 90% annual occupancy rate.

The ever busy outpatient department of Hospital Bon Samaritain, Limbé is complemented with a full functional laboratory, pharmacy, radiology, maternity, pediatrics, adult ward and surgery. Normal routine treatments include: protein and vitamin malnutrition, thyroid, malaria, respiratory infection, eye infections, skin disorders, diabetes, tuberculosis, chronic heart failure, syphilis and other venereal diseases,

Contact: #1 Anciene Grande Rue, Limbe, Haiti; Phone 561 246 3360 ; E-mail hbsfl@att.net, & hbslimbe.org

Some additional Hospitals in Departement Nord:
Hospital Universitaire Justinien, Cap-Haïtien
Hospital Sacré Coeur, Milot - supported by the CRUDEM Foundation
Alyans Sante Borgne, Borgne

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'Hospital La Providence' is the only hospital in Gonaïves, the third city with 300,000 inhabitants in Haiti by population. The hospital was devastated by Hurricane Jeanne in 2004. Since then, it is functioning in a deteriorating condition with lack of funds and unpredictable power. We may remember that a development plan for the hospital had been undertaken under the funding from the Canadian International Development Agency to the tune of $17 million through the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). The construction work for the building at Morne Blanc has been awarded to Abantia, a Spanish group, in consortium with Buildings Cots and Claret. The new building will have an area of 10,380 square meters and a capacity of 200 beds.

Further, Hospital La Providence in Gonaïves will have one emergency care center, pharmacy, laboratory, four hospitalization blocks, one surgical block, maternity and intensive care unit specially dedicated for newborns. Recently, on 23 May, 2014, the Embassy of Mexico has sanctioned $2.5 million for Haiti with the Ministry of Public Health for installation of 4,000 square meters of solar panels to provide 200 KW power to four priority areas of the Hospital La Providence.

Contact: Rte Nationale # 1 Gatreau (old Care building); Tel: 3527-7622 / 3619 7585 pestgilles@yahoo.fr

Departement Artibonite, Artibonite, Deschapelles, Gonaives, Pignon, Dessalines:
Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti, Deschapelles (Posted already)
HospitalSaint Nicolas, Saint Marc
Hospital Bienfaisance de Pignon
Hospital Claire-Heureuse, Dessalines

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Hospital Bienfaisance de Pignon is a modern 65-bed facility hospital in the Central Plateau of Haiti with a pharmacy, two operating rooms, one top class laboratory, and includes facilities for x-ray, endoscopy and mammogram. Hospital Bienfaisance provides on-going training for medical professionals, and medical technicians and nurses. They host training courses for Laparoscopic Surgery and train to repair bio-medical equipments. It offers free treatment to its patient but expect them to pay as much they can afford for the long term viability of the hospital. The revenues collected from the patients over its last 25 years of service have been increased from 7% to 45%. It is a good measure that indicates the positive effect of economic development in the area. In 2013, the service strength of the hospital included: doctors 14, nurses with aides 13 + 49, lab and X-ray technicians 9 + 4, pharmacy 3, others 147. Their service provided includes: patients attended 29,995, surgeries 432, lab tests 33,576, deliveries 1,386 (141 C- section), X-rays 7020, dental patients 6,442.

Address:
Pignon, Haiti. Phone: 3745-8484

Health facilities near Hospital Bienfaisance de Pignon in the Artibonite Department, Gonaives, Pignon, Dessalines:
Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti, Deschapelles (Posted already)
Hospital La Providence, Gonaïves
HospitalSaint Nicolas, Saint Marc
Hospital Claire-Heureuse, Dessalines

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The Hospital Claire Heureuse, located 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince was first opened in October 1986. Prior to this, there was a small non-functional government medical center in the same location. After several requests and appeals by the then inable local government, the Free Methodist National Church agreed to take control of the unkempt health center previously run by inefficient, absentee physicians. Today, Hospital Claire-Heureuse in Marchand Dessalines is also known as Dessalines Rural Health Care Project or D.R.H.P. With 60 beds of inpatient facility, the hospital is a thriving center for local inhabitants with tuberculosis, HIV, maternity, neo and postnatal care treatments. Every day, the out-patient clinic is visited by about 100 patients. With its 87% Haitian staff, it delivers about 1300 babies a year and offers laboratory, ultrasound and X-ray services. They have a Red Cross transfusion center and receive USAID funding.

Departement Artibonite, Artibonite, Deschapelles, Gonaives, Pignon, Dessalines:
Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti, Deschapelles (Posted already)
Hospital La Providence, Gonaïves
HospitalSaint Nicolas, Saint Marc
Hospital Bienfaisance de Pignon
Hospital Claire-Heureuse, Dessalines

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Hospital Sainte Therese De Miragoane is next to Miragoâne and is located in Nippes department, Haiti. It is lying in a dire poor state for past few years that needs immediate government's intervention. In the early 2010, Dr. Yves Chouteau on behalf of a special envoy organized by Medical Support Group, Haiti (GAMA) in an order to encourage balanced development of medical facilities between the capital and other cities had concluded that this is a simple big clinic without any hospital structure. Whatever remained then whether medicine, instrument or medical professionals--they were all in depleted, obsolete and inoperative state. The hospital building was damaged, some parts were collapsed. Operation rooms were hardly functional. Even items for first-aid were not readily available. The facility once used to receive 20,000 to 25,000 patients per year including 6,000 pregnant women with diseases such as malnutrition, diarrhea and respiratory infections in children. The hospital also used to receive HIV / AIDS patients with a higher prevalence rate of 9%, compared to 4% in the rest of the country. Internal revenue per month was between 120,000 and 150,000 gourdes at Hospital Sainte Therese De Miragoane while the actual expenditure was more than double. The hospital had no alternative but to incur piles of debts to its suppliers.

More Hospitals in the region:
Zanmi Lasante, Hospital in Cange
Hospital Sainte-Thérèse de Hinche
Hospital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Mirebalais

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On October 4th, 2012, the Japanese Ambassador to Haiti, Mr. Kenji Kuratomi forwarded a grant agreement with Haiti for US$17 million for the reconstruction of the departmental public hospital, Saint-Michel de Jacmel as part of the Haitian-Japanese bilateral cooperation. The Japanese Ambassador had declared that through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), his government would construct the main building of the hospital which would consists rooms for consulting services, emergency department, radiology department, operating rooms, maternity and pediatric sections. Modern equipments for the hospital would also be provided by his government. On a tripartite agreement between Japan, Morocco and Haiti, medical staff would be trained with modern obstetric and neonatal emergency techniques.

Rue Exina Gilles - Jacmel, Haiti
3666-3313/ 3463-2648

Other medical facilities in Departement Sud-est, near Hospital Saint-Michel de Jacmel:
Centre Hospitalier Christian Martinez

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After the devastating earthquake of 2010, the reconstruction of the Maternity Hospital Immaculate Conception of Les Cayes started with the laying of foundation stone on September 12, 2011. The reconstruction project received a funding of 15 million Gourdes from the government and its partners in MSPP (National Department of Public Health and Population) under American support program of Presidential Emergency Plan for Aids Relief. It was decided that a temporary hanger would be converted to accommodate patients. Dr. Marie Josette Calixte did welcome the reconstruction initiative and stressed the importance to improve the future quality of service offered. In spite of insufficient fund and limited facilities, the four departments of the hospital, viz., maternity, pediatric, surgery and emergency had always remained busy. However, the service of the hospital never remained free from criticism, like, Medicines were sold at black market price, medical cares were mostly provided by student-trainees, and many others. However, the patronage of the Cuban government through own doctors and funding were well accepted.

Rue Prosper Faure - Cayes, Haiti
509-286-0041

Another facility near Hospital Immaculée Conception in Les Cayes in Departement Sud is the Hospital Saint-Boniface in Fond des Blancs

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The St. Boniface Hospital in Fond des Blancs was founded by Saint-Boniface Haiti Foundation in 1992 with both outpatient and inpatient care to serve over 250,000 local inhabitants. The hospital is certified by the Haitian Ministry of Health and it works in partnership with both government and nongovernment organization. A number of U.S surgical experts from Jacksonville, Florida visit the hospital at regular interval and perform hundreds of surgeries. The hospital also serves remote areas through satellite clinics and mobile outreach programs.

The St. Boniface Hospital with its 60 inpatient beds has a 24 hours emergency room, ambulance, obstetric and pediatric care, dental clinic, operating room and immunization room for children. The hospital also organizes healthcare educational programs and celebrates its anniversary on June 5th on the date of the St. Boniface patron saint.

Fond des Blancs, Haiti
617-244-9800

Departement Sud, Cales:
Hospital Saint-Boniface, Fond des Blancs

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