Haiti - Health : Resumption of activities to the HUEH
Medical residents of the Hospital of the State University of Haiti (HUEH) have announced yesterday the resumption of activities of Health on Wednesday. The 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 are no project susceptible to a possible closure for any period of 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. The 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 use. For example, the building of Pediatrics, 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."
