The Lascahobas Hospital The Need

For years, Lascahobans have had to get their year-round medical services from a resident doctor assigned annually from Port-au-Prince: A single doctor for a town of 56,500!

This doctor has had to face not only an enormous caseload of patients but also the lack of proper medical facilities and/or required medications.

With limited access to basic healthcare services and poor treatment, women still routinely die in childbirth and infant mortality is high. An improperly treated broken leg can lead to death from gangrene; untreated glaucoma results in blindness ... and typhoid and malaria are endemic, as is tuberculosis.

Our Response -- and Solution

FCLH donated it's hospital in Lascahobas that opened in 2000. In 2009, after a period of negotiations, the Catholic Church of Haiti assumed full responsibility for operating the FCLH Hospital, which had been an ongoing financial burden. As part of the donation agreement, the Yearly Ophthalmology Mission will continue to provide services in the hospital. By providing this much-needed facility, it is our objective to:

• Reduce the high level of infant mortality through prenatal care;
• Provide preventive medical care through immunizations, routine diagnostics procedures and other medical interventions; and
• Treat emergency or chronic medical case situations that up to now have resulted in unacceptably high number of fatalities and debilitating conditions.
• Find out what facilities the hospital features and what equipment we have already obtained.

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