Zanmi Lasante

Zanmi Lasante is a sister organization to the Boston-based Partners In Health that operates out of Cange in central Haiti. It was built in 1985 to treat patients incapable of paying hospital fees. [cite book
first=Tracy | last=Kidder | year=2003
title=Mountains beyond mountains | pages=pp. 1-300
publisher=Random House Publishing Group
location=New York | id=ISBN 0-8129-730-1 ] Its facilities include two operating wards, "adult and pediatric inpatient wards, an infectious disease center , an outpatient clinic, a women’s health clinic (Proje Sante Fanm), ophthalmology and general medicine clinics, a laboratory, a pharmaceutical warehouse, a Red Cross blood bank, and radiographic services." It currently has eight sites in the area of the central plateau of Haiti and serves over 500,000 people. [ [http://www.pih.org/where/Haiti/Haiti.html Zanmi Lasante] Official PIH website on Zanmi Lasante.]

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ee also

PIH

External links

[http://www.pih.org/where/Haiti/Haiti.html Zanmi Lasante on Partners in Health website]