Help Build & Run a New Maternity Service in Haiti

Summary

To establish a coherent maternity service in North Haiti including training, equipping midwives, supporting local health centres and educating Haitians about pregnancy and early child development.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Haiti has the highest rate of infant, under five and maternal mortality in the western hemisphere. Due to the extreme poverty, 75% of births take place at home without any medical support in Haiti resulting in over 3000 women dying in childbirth every year - A rate fifty times higher than America. Our challenge is establishing a sustainable, coherent and accessible maternity service in North Haiti.

How will this project solve this problem?

Our maternity unit will provide anti-natal screening and support for mothers at greatest risk, ultrasound services and C-section surgery for emergency cases. Our neo-natal ward will provide 24-hour monitoring and incubators for babies at risk.

Potential Long Term Impact

With this project we will be able to reduce both maternal and child mortality rates and begin to establish a new era of safer childbirth in a region of over 1 million people.

Project Message

The emergency still remains - not only for the victims of the earthquake, but for the nation as a whole. We’re calling on our supporters to make a declaration of hope for Haiti “We won’t forget”.
- Carwyn Hill, Co-founder and Project Manager of HHA

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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