By Adriana Lamonte | Coordinator, Monitoring and Evaluation
Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) Haiti is grateful for your support for mothers and infants in rural Haiti. Maternal and Child Health is an HAS priority, and factors in to the majority of our hospital community health services. Programs in the hospital include high risk obstetrics, pediatrics and critical nutrition cases. Community based care is available in four community health centers in which HAS provides a variety of services to mothers and children, including pre-natal care and family planning, vaccinations and screenings for infections. Thus, from our community health workers who teach 8,000 women per month about various family health topics to our obstetric surgeons who perform nearly 300 emergency Cesarean sections per year for women with high-risk pregnancies, our team is dedicated to helping women and their families improve their health and quality of life. We provide all of these services at a low cost to the patient to make healthcare accessible to all of the 345,000 residents that live in our district.
This project, in which we raised over $7,000 with the help of caring supporters like you, allowed us to change the lives of 16 women and their families this past April and May. It completely funded the cost of the Cesarean sections for 16 women who came to the hospital during a three-week period with life-threatening complications such as eclampsia and placenta previa. Nearly all of these women’s hospital stays in the high-risk obstetrics ward of the hospital were also paid for in full, saving them and their families the stress of having to pay for a potentially long recovery. In the process of saving these women, their babies were also born safely and went home to begin their lives with their mothers.
Funding these services not only saved the lives of these 16 women and their newborn babies, but indirectly contributed to saving others as well. With budget relief for maternal health services, HAS can more easily fund other services as well. Donations such as these are crucial to allowing HAS to continue to provide excellent service as the only true, 24/7 hospital in our service area. Thank you from HAS for your generous support!
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