Coronavirus in Haiti, the First Day
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Changing our Mind
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St Luke never closed their doors.
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Throughout the Peyi Lok (Country Lockdown) of 3 months duration in 2019, St Luke Family Hospital and Clinics continued to function. Staff and medical supplies were transported via ambulance to ensure their safety day and night. We are so proud of our drivers who were so success in their daily routes – their driving of the highest skill, their negotiation skills were incredible at the barricades – truly - fearless everyday heroes. St Luke never closed their doors to the sick...so many lives were saved...so many stroke patients received rehabilitating therapy…
Read MoreA floating hospital and a sinking country
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Under the circumstances, it is hard to learn how to “be the change we would like to see”, guided by the “better angels of our nature.”
As is the case in Haiti, the cause of the many of the uprisings are huge frustrations because life is ever more difficult to live.
Read MoreSacrifice at the golden price of our St Luke Foundation staffs
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Every day, our brave staff is hindered in their transport by roads barricaded with burning tires. Many protestors are after reasonable aims, but this chaotic situation makes the situation downright violent, and our staff is sometimes verbally and physically impacted with slurs and even protestors throwing stones at the ambulances
Read MoreA visit from the School of nursing sciences (DBTec)→
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On August 5,2019 St Luke Hospital had the honor to welcome more than 60 students in their 4th year of Nursing Science, coming from the School of Nursing with DBTech. Students were accompanied by their director, Mrs. Angelika and had the opportunity to visit the various parts and services of St. Luke Hospital. Students were also fortunate to be able to participate in a training based on Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or stroked. CVAs are one of the leading causes of death in Haiti (WHO 2017), making it important for training on the early warning signs and treatment options for patients. Dr.Dorcelus Berthie, the Academic Head of St. Luke Hospital, stressed the importance of education and mitigation of risk factors for patients, which would help to prevent this disease that is very common in our country.
Read MoreThird Edition of Haitian Acute and Emergency Care Conference
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On the 26th and 27th of April 2019, the St. Luke Foundation successfully held their third international conference on Acute and Emergency Care at the St. Luke Hospital. This year the conference focused on the management of trauma cases because trauma patients are common in hospitals while professionals specializing in trauma care are lacking.
Read MorePieta - When Demonstrations Cause Babies to Die
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When I returned to St Damien Hospital at about 5pm yesterday afternoon, after spending the day buying medicines for our hospitals, there was a woman in the hallway holding a small child, and I sensed something was very wrong.
She was not crying, but her face revealed a restrained panic.
Her one year old daughter, while seemingly asleep in her arms, was, to my eye, lifeless.
The child was dead, and this poor mother could not accept it.
This is the kind of thing that happens when roads are blocked with violence, when hatred rules the streets, when mothers are afraid to risk the roads with their sick children.
Read MoreIn Remembrance of Jephte Lorin, a St. Luke Student
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Jephte Lorin was born on March 15, 1996. In 2016, he was part of the first class, called the Quintessence, to graduation from the Academy for Peace and Justice, the largest school of the St. Luke Foundation. Lorin first entered the school in 2012 when he was beginning his 3rd year of secondary education (in Haiti, secondary school comprised of 7th through 12th grades). He spent four beautiful years amongst our students.
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