An artist's rendering of the future Mirebalais Hospital in Haiti. Courtesy of Nicholas Clark Architects. In this issue: - PIH breaks ground on new teaching hospital in Haiti
The 320-bed hospital will be the flagship of PIH's response efforts to the January earthquake. - Save the Date: PIH Annual Symposium
PIH will celebrate the annual Thomas J. White Symposium on September 25. - Healing a shaken psychosis
Esther was nearly catatonic following the earthquake. Could PIH help her? - Giving a voice to those most affected by Guatemala's mining industry
Empowering local communities in Guatemala to have a say in mining projects that may affect their health and livelihoods. - Celebrating the first anniversary of a hospital in Nepal
PIH-supported project in Nepal, Nyaya Health, celebrates Bayalpata Hospital's first anniversary. - With a new cultural center, PIH's partner organization in Peru celebrates its 14th anniversary
Socios En Salud inaugurates Carabayllo Cultural Center to celebrate 14 years of serving the poor.
- The gift of turning 40
Turning 40 by supporting PIH's work in Lesotho, a country where the average life expectancy is typically less than 40 years. - An "of-the-moment, yet timeless" photographic reminder of the earthquake in Haiti
Months after the disaster, the powerful images of Haiti: 12 January 2010 compel viewers to continue to stand with the people of Haiti. - Plus: Waking the walk, Top of the mind, Curbing the spread of TB in Mexico, Caring for the mental health of earthquake survivors, A congressional hearing on Haiti's road to recovery, Arcade Fire and Steel Pulse stand with Haiti, A first visit to Haiti, and Social networking with PIH.
PIH breaks ground on new teaching hospital in Haiti | |  | | | An artist's rendering of the future Mirebalais Hospital.
Courtesy of Nicholas Clark Architects. | On July 3, Partners In Health (PIH) and our Haitian sister organization, Zanmi Lasante (ZL), broke ground in Mirebalais, Haiti, for an innovative teaching hospital. Mirebalais will be a national referral facility, the flagship of our efforts to help rebuild Haiti's health sector. By the first anniversary of the earthquake--January 12, 2011--the seven buildings of the main hospital campus, comprising 180,000 square feet, will be standing, with work on the interiors begun. Plans call for the hospital to be accepting patients by the end of 2011. The new hospital will have 320 beds--equivalent in capacity to all 12 of the sites in which PIH currently works in Haiti, combined--and will offer clinical facilities not available at any public site in the country, including an intensive care unit and an operating theatre complex with six operating rooms. "What Haiti needs now are true partners to help us build back better by strengthening our country's public infrastructure," said Dr. Alex Larsen, Haiti's Minister of Health. "The new teaching hospital at Mirebalais will be a model for our national health system, offering high-quality medical services, a place for our clinicians to study and train, and hope and dignity to all who will seek--and offer--care there. We look forward to building upon our long-standing partnership with Partners In Health/Zanmi Lasante with this desperately-needed facility." Read more about the new hospital.
Save the Date: PIH's annual Thomas J. White Symposium Partners In Health will hold its 17th annual Thomas J. White Symposium on Saturday, September 25, at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, MA. The yearly event brings together PIH staff, family, friends, and fellow activists and advocates for health and social justice for the poor. Please look for more information about this memorable event and how you can get free tickets in next month's e-bulletin. A live stream of the symposium will also be available at www.pih.org starting at 3pm EST on September 25.
Healing a shaken psychosis "Do you know where you are?" Tatiana Therosme gently asked her patient for the third time. The patient, a rail-thin young woman in a cream-colored dress, stared blankly back before mumbling softly that she was at school. "Do you remember where you're from?" The patient looked slowly around at the other people in the small room at Zanmi Lasante's hospital in Cange, but remained silent. Tatiana, a psychologist for Zanmi Lasante (ZL), quietly began questioning the woman's roommate. Yes, she talks to herself out loud, the roommate tells her. Yes, she seems to hear and see things that others can't. Yes, she cries and sleeps a lot. Tatiana nods. She's recently seen similar behaviors in another patient. | |  | | | Esther (left) with Tatiana. | Less than a mile from the Cange hospital is a small house with a little table set out front displaying tidy stacks of crackers and candy. Esther, the young woman seated next to the table, has spent the morning selling her wares to school children and other passersby. She grins broadly when she sees Tatiana coming down the dusty road and darts into her house to grab chairs for her visitors. But quickly glancing up at the ominous clouds amassing above her (it's the rainy season in Haiti, after all), she decides it's better to invite her guests into her house instead. As she sits at the kitchen table, laughing and joking with Tatiana, it's hard to believe that six months ago Esther was a completely different person. Like the patient Tatiana met with earlier in the day at the hospital, she once seemed incapable of talking or responding to questions. She would stare blankly ahead, practically catatonic. She heard voices, and sometimes flung off her clothes in public. It's difficult to estimate the earthquake's affects on the mental health of survivors. But in terms of loss of loved ones, life-altering injuries, hundreds of thousands of displaced survivors, and widespread social and economic insecurity throughout the country, the effects are inescapable. In such an unstable environment, many who, like Esther, may have had pre-existing untreated psychiatric problems prior to the earthquake that deteriorated in the aftermath. Read more.
Giving a voice to those most affected by the mining industry If you've ever visited New York, you've probably heard this story: the Dutch bought the entire island of Manhattan from the indigenous Lenape for a tiny sum, estimated at about $1,000 in today's currency. As tourists, we might chuckle and shake our heads as we ascend the Empire State building or walk down Broadway. Yet, in many ways, indigenous people in Guatemala today often feel they are being asked to make just this sort of lopsided bargain. Guatemala has granted over 400 mining concessions to foreign companies. For the privilege of using national resources, mining companies pay only a 0.5 percent donation to the nation, while the remaining billions in profit benefit investors, most of whom live outside the country. While investors get rich, local residents may suffer negative impacts, in terms of health as well as socio-economics. First off, people who live and farm above the minerals that companies wish to mine are often forcibly evicted or unfairly compensated fairly for the loss of their property. Once mining is underway, it requires a great deal of water, and in already stressed local water systems, this can leave local families' supplies dry. In addition, extraction typically requires large quantities of chemicals, such as tons of cyanide to leach gold from crushed rock heaps. With little or no independent environmental oversight, communities are concerned about contamination, and often complain of diseases in fish, animals, and humans. Companies argue that they are providing well paying jobs to the local community. While this may be true, the jobs are also dangerous and time delimited: the economic benefit will disappear as soon as the mining work is complete. Ultimately, these impacts can contribute to poor health outcomes in the local communities, which is why ETESC and its team of community health workers and advocates decided to get involved. Read more about ETESC's work to help empower these local communities.
Celebrating the first anniversary of a hospital in Nepal In June, Nyaya Health, an organization in Nepal supported by Partners In Health (PIH), celebrated the first anniversary of its hospital in Accham. This special day was marked by the planting of over 100 trees, shrubs, and flowers around the Bayalpata Hospital grounds as a symbol of the successes of the past and hope for growth in the future. Joined by members of the entire community, including local leaders and police force members, staff spent the afternoon planting new life throughout the grounds and cultivating their close partnership with local residents. Though the hospital was built over 30 years ago, it only became fully operational in July 2009 when Nyaya Health, in collaboration with the Nepali Ministry of Health and Population, rehabilitated the facility after a long period of dormancy. Upon inauguration, it was equipped with outpatient and inpatient wards, an emergency ward, a maternity and delivery ward, a laboratory, and a pharmacy. Before it opened this facility, Nyaya had to refer emergency patients to a hospital over 10 hours away from their health center by bus for appropriate care. Learn more.
With a new cultural center, PIH's partners in Peru celebrate 14th anniversary
| |  | | | The new Carabayllo Cultural Center hosted a health fair featuring educational activities for children. | In July, Socios En Salud, Partners In Health's partner organization in Peru, celebrated 14 years of providing high quality health services to patients and families living in the most marginalized communities. As part of the anniversary activities, SES officially inaugurated their new Carabayllo Cultural Center, which will serve as a community space for neighborhood children to play and develop artistic skills. Because education is one of the most effective ways of breaking the cycle of poverty and disease in the communities served by PIH, the new facility will be key in helping to advance SES's mission in Carabayllo.
Read more about the new Carabayllo Cultural Center.
The gift of turning 40
| |  | | | A patient waiting to be seen at one of PIH Lesotho's mountain clinics.
| Each year, millions of people around the world celebrate their fortieth birthday, but in places like Lesotho, where the average life expectancy has fluctuated between 35-40 years, many people do not reach this milestone. In fact, Lesotho has one of the lowest life expectancy rates in the world, ranking 191 out of 195 countries. A group of Partners In Health (PIH) supporters--all bound by a common birth year, 1970--are working to change these statistics. These activists, many of who have never met in person, include journalists, academics, writers, and concerned parents. Together, they have launched the Gift of 40 Campaign. "The inspirational idea to do something good and socially significant to mark our fortieth birthdays first came from Professor Sree Sreenivasan," says Sujatha Bagal, a Washington, DC-based writer. "He sent out an e-mail and tweeted--very mysteriously--to ask if people who were turning 40 this year would be interested in joining him and working together on a project," said Sujatha. Sreenivasan, Dean of Students at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, received hundreds of responses. Read more about the Gift of 40 Campaign.
An "of-the-moment, yet timeless" photographic reminder of the earthquake in Haiti
13 January 2010. As darkness envelops Haiti's people, a community's songs filter through the air. Moving though the capital city, a photographer comes upon a small clinic tucked within the shadows. The bodies of the dead are piled outside the health care center. A number of people are trying to sleep in the building's congested courtyard despite their evident pain. Drawing closer, amidst the dirt and debris, a Haitian woman wrapped in a blue bed sheet extends an outstretched hand in a desperate plea for help. Her pain touches the photographer, who immortalizes the scene. "Great photography demands questioning," says Sherman Teichman, Director of the Institute of Global Leadership at Tufts University.
The questions posed here are both specific to the image--who is this woman? What has she suffered? --and also ask larger, more thought provoking questions--where are the medical supplies? What can I do to help her? How can I lift her up and onto her feet once again? This philosophy, one that pushes people to question the causes behind images, guided the creators of Haiti: 12 January 2010, a striking sixteen page folio publication. More than six months after the Haitian earthquake, as media attention slowly shifts to new stories, it becomes easier for people to forget about Haiti's suffering. This folio provides a needed reminder; it compels people to continue to think about Haiti. All proceeds from folio sales will be donated to Partners In Health. Read more about Haiti: 12 January 2010 and how to get a copy.
| In memory of Patricia Neal
Actress and steadfast PIH supporter Patricia Neal succumbed to lung cancer on Sunday morning. She died peacefully at her home on Martha's Vineyard, surrounded by her family, including daughter and PIH Executive Director Ophelia Dahl. PIH co-founder Paul Farmer sent out a message to PIH staff shortly after: "Patsy," as I took the liberty of (and delight in) calling her, was one of ZL's and then PIH's earliest supporters. She slipped us cash as we were getting started, encouraged us, and did benefits to raise money for our work. Patsy was full of steel and grace: lovely, tenacious, and absolutely committed to the work before her, qualities rather familiar to those of us lucky enough to work with Ophelia. Read a statement from Ophelia's family. |
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