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News

Christamen's Clear New Future

August 9, 2016

Last week, a 10 year old girl named Cristamen arrived at St. Boniface, covered from head to toe in dry, scaly lesions. Her condition was so apparent that as she walked through the hospital campus, patients and staff couldn’t help but stare.

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Water System Improvement at St. Boniface Hospital

July 5, 2016

Each day, due to inhibiting factors such as drought and hospital expansion, St. Boniface faces a potentially catastrophic shortage of water. The direct access water line, which began construction this month, is designed to change that.

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Massachusetts Doctors Share Expertise in Fond-des-Blancs

June 30, 2016

This June St. Boniface Hospital welcomed the Karlson family - special guests and big supporters of SBHF. Dr. Beth Karlson, a Boston-based rheumatologist and epidemiologist was accompanied by her brother-in-law, Dr. James Karlson, an esteemed orthopedic surgeon, and James’ son, Nicholas, who will begin medical school in the fall.

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Premature Twins Airlifted to NICU

June 30, 2016

June has been a month of firsts for St. Boniface: this morning, an emergency airlift of premature twins.

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Community Health Teams Conduct Cholera Education Sessions

May 25, 2016

​Cholera is continuing to plague the communities in and around Fond-des-Blancs. With recent rains, the number of patients with cholera symptoms has spiked again, to 33 new cases the week of May 15th.

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Strides for St. Boniface

May 19, 2016

Young SBHF supporter raises funds for healthcare in southern Haiti.

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Building the SBHF Surgical Center

April 12, 2016

SBHF’s new Surgical Center, scheduled to open this fall, is starting to take shape! Our construction partners at Build Health International recently undertook the huge effort of manually mixing and pouring 7,000 square feet of concrete to finish the first level of the building, and lay the foundation for the second floor.

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SCI Program Receives Support from Reeve Foundation

February 22, 2016

SBHF was proud to receive a 2015 Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Quality of Life grant. The QoL program provides support to organizations working to improve the quality of life for people living with paralysis. SBHF’s grant will go to providing critical medicines to participants in our Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) center’s Community Reintegration program.

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Zika in Haiti: SBHF's Response

February 8, 2016

You have probably heard a lot about Zika virus in the news lately. The mosquito-borne virus is spreading across Brazil and other Central and South American countries, including Haiti. In Fond-des-Blancs we have clinically diagnosed Zika cases at St. Boniface Hospital.

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Cholera Outbreak in Fond-des-Blancs

November 25, 2015

FOND-DES-BLANCS, HAITI: A new outbreak of cholera in communities along the Cote de Fer river represents the first significant outbreak of the disease in the region in four years.

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