Patient arriving from U.S.N.S. Comfort for care in Fond des Blancs.

After meeting in Port-Au-Prince yesterday with Handicap International and Healing Hands for Haiti, we were able to establish a partnership to offer necessary services and care to the quadriplegic and paraplegic patients that we are receiving from the Comfort. Since we are the only hospital in Haiti that has agreed to accept these patients from the ship, we have already received 7 patients paralyzed by the Jan. 12th earthquake.

Healing Hands for Haiti is based in Port-Au-Prince and has years of experience working with the Haitian population. However, the earthquake destroyed their facility and now they are looking to help other organizations to help take care of those affected by the disaster. A team of American and Haitian volunteers will come to Fond des Blancs this Tuesday to train our staff, patients, and family members on how to care for our quadriplegic and paraplegic patients. With helicopters arriving at St. Boniface from the Comfort almost daily with new patients, we couldn't be happier to start this partnership to offer our patients the care that they need and deserve.