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The Medical Clinic and Hospital There is a crisis in Haiti when it comes to adequate medical care for children. Local clinics are unable to provide appropriate medical care in this, the poorest country in the western hemisphere. 60% of children in Haiti don't have access to even the most basic of medical care and currently, thousands of children are dying from preventable and curable diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia. The loss of one of their children, to tuberculosis, the nearly fatal illness of several other children, has increased their determination and resolve to quickly provide a place of hope for children with medical needs. The Response: A Medical Clinic and a state-of-the-art pediatric hospital: The Danita's Children's Medical Clinic and Hospital will provide much needed life-giving healthcare and education to their children, and children in the surrounding region. The focus of the clinic will be pediatrics, centering on treatment, education, and prevention. The Danita's Children's Medical Clinic and Hospital are planned to provide:
Why a Medical Clinic and Hospital of this Size and Scope? Over the past ten years Danita's Children/Hope for Haiti Children's Center, Inc. has been operational in rescuing, loving and caring for orphans and impoverished children in the northeastern region of Haiti. During this time the lack of basic and appropriate healthcare for children has become a major area of concern. As a result of more than two years of research into the causes and possible solutions to these issues, and ten years of experience in Haiti, Danita's Children has come to understand the depth and need for health-care for children in their region of Haiti. The Danita's Children's Medical Clinic and Hospital will be fully operational medical facilities that will provide for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of impoverished children in northeastern Haiti and the surrounding region. What began as a promise made to dying child by our founder, Danita Estrella, has grown in to a full-scale medical facility that will provide care and health education to thousands of children each year who would not otherwise have access to medical treatment. Progress of the clinic:
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