Dear friends,
 
Just over one year ago, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake ripped through southern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and wounding more than 12,000. The shaking earth brought tens of thousands of buildings down and damaged many more, including 97 medical facilities.

Heroes rose from all walks of life. Those in the disaster zone lucky enough to avoid major injury were determined to save their neighbors. They were untrained in search and rescue or emergency medicine, but they dug into the rubble and saved lives anyway, just as they did 11 years earlier when the deadliest earthquake in modern history devastated Port-Au-Prince.

This time was different. Help was already on its way.

The moment the ground began to shake, Zanmi Lasate, as PIH has been known in Haiti since the 1980s, sprang into action, receiving survivors by air ambulance, scrubbing into surgery, sending emergency clinicians to the disaster zone, prepping emergency supply shipments, and organizing lifesaving mobile clinics.

The Zanmi Lasante team had spent the decade after the cataclysm of 2010 preparing, training, and building. Miraculously, most of the Zanmi Lasante’s network of public hospitals and clinics were undamaged, including University Hospital, PIH’s 350-bed, internationally recognized teaching hospital in Mirebalais.

Perhaps most crucially, PIH trained a generation of Haitian emergency medicine specialists at University Hospital throughout the previous decade. Those specialists led the emergency response across the nation.

Over the next two weeks, we’ll walk you through those harrowing first days, as well as the year of recovery efforts that PIH’s unshakable, long-term commitment to the Haitian health system and the people it serves made possible.

That year of recovery work wouldn’t have been possible without the dedicated generosity of monthly donors. Together, they have not only saved lives, but also contributed to the beginning of a new era of health care in Haiti. See the 365 days of care they helped make possible now >> [[link removed]]


In solidarity,


Partners In Health





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