New Hospital Works
Lagonave, Haiti
There is currently one functioning hospital on the island of Lagonave. It is open 24 hours per day 365 days per year. It is staffed by excellent doctors and nurses who carry out life saving work every single day. The hospital serves as the only place on the island which can carry out caesarean sections and minor surgery. Built in the 1950s by the Wesleyan Mission, the hospitals 33 beds just about coped when the islands population was around 10,000. In the 50s and 60s however the Haitian govt decided to “clean up” the mainland and started dumping people from the mainland onto Lagonave. As a result of this the population boomed and now stands at approx 120,000. Clearly the hospital is at breaking point in terms of capacity and the building from the 50s needs to be upgraded to bring it into the current century. There is desperate need for a new surgical suite and the building of a Paediatrics clinic staffed by a full time island based paediatrician. In May 2009 LemonAid took Gary Hebblewhite ( Manchester United Football Club Project Manager) and Alan Kypriadis ( senior architect at Marshall Kypriadis ) to Lagonave to visit the hospital. We are delighted to say that Alan and Gary have agreed to come on board with LemonAid in designing, project managing and assisting in fundraising for the all new purpose built hospital. Our dream is to have the first phase of the new hospital built and operational by January 2012. Our current budget for the hospital is $1 million.
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