Saturday, June 30, 2012

ARTICLE - VISIT TO PETIT-GOAVE HOSPITAL

DELEGATION FROM THE OFFICE OF THE FIRST LADY AT THE PETIT-GOAVE HOSPITAL
(Haiti Libre) -

At the invitation of the Deputy of the Constituency of Petit-Goâve, Stevenson Jacques Thimoléon, the office of the First Lady has sent this Thursday, June 21, 2012, a delegation composed of Gonzague Day, the Departmental Delegate of the West, a physician, and Ms. Mona Adam who led this mission, in order to make a diagnosis of the situation and problems of the Notre-Dame Hospital of Petit-Goâve...

The delegation, accompanied by Deputy Thimoléon, visited for more than three hours the different hospital departments. Mona Adam questioned Dr. Lesly Pierre, Director of the hospital, Joël Charles the administrator of this institution, as well as several patients.

Following this visit, Ms. Mona Adam deplored the state of the hospital. "[...] I can not even describe what I have just found, this hospital is dysfonctionel [...] gaps are evident; lack of technical staff, shortage of nurses, lack of equipment, lack of services [...] the rooms do not meet [health] standards. I will recommend in my report that urgent measures are taken in favor of Notre-Dame Hospital."

For his part, the Departmental Delegate of the West, has promised that the Government would soon improve the situation of health services for the population of Petit-Goâve.

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