What's Happening in Haiti Now

Haiti 2014 © Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi

 

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)  has been providing badly needed medical care in Haiti for nearly two and a half decades. Today in Port-au-Prince, MSF runs a trauma surgery department and the only free burn treatment center in the city in the Drouillard neighborhood. Teams provide surgical and orthopedic care at the 107-bed Nap Kembe hospital in Tabarre and a stabilization center in Martissant neighborhood. In Delmas 33, MSF runs a busy 143-bed emergency obstetrics program. All MSF services in Haiti are open 24 hours a day and are free of charge. 

In a crowded reception room, patients wait for care at Nap Kenbe – Creole for ‘staying well’ – surgical centre in Tabarre, eastern Port-au-Prince. Teams provide emergency trauma, orthopaedic and abdominal surgery for victims of gun crime and domestic violence as well as people injured in road accidents.
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi
A nurse delivers care to a patient at Nap Kenbe – Creole for ‘staying well’ – surgical centre in Tabarre, eastern Port-au-Prince. Teams provide emergency trauma, orthopaedic and abdominal surgery for victims of gun crime and domestic violence as well as people injured in road accidents.
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi
A patient rests at Nap Kenbe – Creole for ‘staying well’ – surgical centre in Tabarre, eastern Port-au-Prince. Teams provide emergency trauma, orthopaedic and abdominal surgery for victims of gun crime and domestic violence as well as people injured in road accidents.
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi
A mother gazes at her child in a room for women with premature babies born at the obstetric and neonatal emergency hospital in Delmas 33 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. This is her first newborn despite it having been her second pregnancy. She lost her first child to a miscarriage. The hospital offers free, around-the-clock emergency care for women with complications during pregnancy or child birth.
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi
An incubator helps to regulate the body temperature of a pre-mature newborn who receives life-saving monitoring, treatment and care at the obstetric and neonatal emergency hospital in Delmas 33 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. The hospital offers free, around-the-clock emergency care for women with complications during pregnancy or child birth.
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi
A mother feeds her child, born premature at the obstetric and neonatal emergency hospital in Delmas 33 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. This is her first newborn despite it having been her second pregnancy. She lost her first child to a miscarriage. The hospital offers free, around-the-clock emergency care for women with complications during pregnancy or child birth.
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi
Haiti 2014 © Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi