Scaling-up surgical care in rural Haiti

[摘要] To address these barriers, Partners in Health and Zanmi Lasante (PIH/ZL) started to provide surgical care in central Haiti in 1996. These efforts evolved slowly but successfully, resulting in the construction of operating rooms (ORs) at three hospitals and a network of clinics for a catchment area of 3.3 million people.6 In 2008, an effort was made to increase surgical capacity with visiting surgeons and skilled support staff within the existing infrastructure of these three hospitals. In 2014, PIH/ZL sought to further scale-up surgical care and partnered with the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population to build the University Hospital of Mirebalais (UHM). Investments were made not just in training skilled surgical specialists, but also in infrastructure (ORs, surgical ward, and sterile processing) and in supply procurement. Surgical care for the catchment area also became centralized at UHM with a network of ambulances to transfer patients from the rural clinics and hospitals.

[学科分类] 外科医学