Medicine
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January Medical Trip – Day 1
- January 9, 2015
- Category: Medicine
This post was written by Marlene Rickert, Medical Director for Hope for Haiti Foundation It is a beautiful day in Haiti. Warm and sunny. I am staying in a guesthouse with a group from Minnesota and Wisconsin who is very glad to be away from the cold. Staying in Port-au-Prince is not home like Zorangé, but the
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Dream Come True: An X-ray in Bainet
- March 1, 2014
- Category: Medicine, News
We at Hope for Haiti Foundation have been on a journey the last 14 years to help provide basic to comprehensive medical care to our community in Zorange, and now Gandou and Bainet. Over the last 4 years, the effort has been intensified with a focus on Bainet to see how we can provide more
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Giving Birth in Zorangé
- August 19, 2013
- Category: Medicine, News
An entire community is waiting and watching… watching our progress in maternity care in a rural region of Haiti. Our founder, Jean Elade Eloi, writes to us from Haiti. He watched a community coming together, gathering and celebrating their newest addition! For the last 12 months I’ve been hearing stories about pregnant women coming to
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Surgical Trip: Day 4
- April 22, 2013
- Category: Medicine
Our surgical team has had an amazing week in Haiti! They all returned back to the United States safe and sound this past weekend. Here is the final “live from Haiti” update from our founder, Jean Elade Eloi, on their last surgery day. It’s about 3:00 p.m. and our last patient is being sutured up
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Surgical Trip: Day 3
- April 18, 2013
- Category: Medicine
A team of medical professionals have traveled to Haiti to assist in the first round of surgical procedures in Bainet. HFHF is in partnership with the Ministry of Health to achieve these amazing results. The first day and the second day were both a huge success! Below is the “Day 3” update from our founder.
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Surgical Trip: Milestones on Day 2
- April 17, 2013
- Category: Medicine
A team of medical professionals have traveled to Haiti to assist in the first round of surgical procedures in Bainet. HFHF is in partnership with the Ministry of Health to achieve these amazing results. Below is another daily update from our founder. Yesterday we were hoping to perform at least one procedure and we ended
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First surgical operations performed in Bainet
- April 16, 2013
- Category: Medicine, News
Today is a milestone day in the Sud-Est department in Haiti. We received word from HFHF’s founder, Jean Elade Eloi, that surgical procedures were performed in the town of Bainet. His update is full of the energy, excitement, and joy appropriate for such a momentous occasion. Today was indeed a great in our history. We
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The Doctor Can (literally) See You Now
- January 19, 2013
- Category: Medicine, News
Most of us have no concept of not being able to see a doctor when we need to. You make an appointment, show up at that time and go right in. In Haiti, this is not the case. Although Hope for Haiti Foundation has Dr. Gabriel as our full-time doctor now, he serves our entire
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Three Years Later: Ever-growing Hope in the Earthquake’s Aftermath
- January 11, 2013
- Category: Community, Education, Environment, Faith, Medicine, News
It’s already been three years since a devastating earthquake shook Haiti to its core—35 seconds that came suddenly and left misery and despair in its wake. As I traveled to Haiti, through the Dominican Republic, three days after the earthquake I could not miss the multitude of vehicles trying to cross the border into Haiti.
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2012 Year-End Update from Founder
- December 26, 2012
- Category: Community, Education, Environment, Events, Faith, Medicine, News
Dear Friends and Partners, It’s already the end of the 2012 and we, at Hope for Haiti Foundation, are excited to say that it was another awesome year for us as we continue to partner with you here at home and in Haiti. Our work continues in all the initiatives we’ve undertaken. We’ve gone from one