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The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative—which provides training for disaster relief—helped to build the hospital and find funding for its construction, according to HHI Co-Director Michael J. VanRooyen.
Merely days after the devastating Haitian earthquake of Jan. 12, Stephanie Rosborough ’96 and Hilarie Cranmer arrived via helicopter to set up a field hospital near Port-au-Prince at an orphanage and school run by the organization Love A Child.
Rosborough, international emergency medicine specialist at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Cranmer, assistant professor of global health and population at the Harvard School of Public Health, used their many years of experience in dealing with worldwide crises to mobilize the volunteers, resources, and supplies needed...
The HHI-sponsored field hospital fills this treatment gap, and to date has provided care for at least 720 patients. At any given time, there are over 1,000 individuals in the hospital—about 700 are patients and their family members, and 300 are hospital staff and hired...
Cranmer and Rosborough planned to run the clinic for a minimum of six months before turning it over completely to local management, but they now think that they will likely remain in charge for a year. Their goal is “true re-integration” of the hospital...