ARTICLE - STRIKE FINISHED AT HUEH

RESUMPTION OF ACTIVITIES TO THE HUEH
(Haiti Libre) -

Medical residents of the Hospital of the State University of Haiti (HUEH) announced yesterday the resumption of activities for Wednesday. Dr Gabriel Timothée, Director General of the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) has welcomed this decision and took the opportunity to formally deny the rumors circulating about the closure of the HUEH.

"There is no project planned for a possible closure for any period at the General Hospital. It is a distortion of the initial information. People have misunderstood or have voluntarily chosen, by bad faith to to misinterpret it [...] For now, meetings on this issue are continuing between the leaders of MSPP and the various components of the hospital to find the best way to proceed."

Following the agreement signed in September 2010 for the rehabilitation of HUEH, France and the United States will co-fund this project [for a period of 4 to 5 years] at a cost of $53 million including $3.2 million from the Government of Haiti. Phase I of this project was officially launched in late July 2011.

During this event, Dr. Alix Lassègue, Executive Director of the HUEH declared, "we will demolish all the buildings that were badly damaged and that can no longer be used. For example, the Pediatrics building, the laboratory, part of the department of internal medicine, water towers, part of the outpatient clinic. In the next months all of these buildings will be demolished."