We have 30 years of experience in Haiti.
Drs. Barth Green and Arthur Fournier founded Project Medishare for Haiti in 1994. They assembled the first team of faculty from the University of Miami Schools of Medicine and Nursing to assess the health care situation in rural Haiti, and explore ways in which they could help improve health conditions for the people in Haiti. Since that first trip, Project Medishare has forged partnerships with physicians and allied health professionals from all over the world who share a strong belief in social justice, and the universal right to access quality healthcare and development services. Immediately after Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, the organization fielded the first medical team of foreign physicians to arrive in the country. Within days, Project Medishare set up a 300-bed trauma and critical care field hospital on the grounds of the Port-au-Prince airport at the request of the Haitian president.
In June 2010, after treating more than 30,000 earthquake victims, Project Medishare moved out of the tent hospital and into Hospital Bernard Mevs, which was only partially functional due to the post-quake conditions. Project Medishare brought in all of the high-tech equipment used at the field hospital, upgraded the hospital to include intensive care units for adults, children and premature babies, and turned HBM into the only trauma and critical care hospital in Haiti. While most aid organizations have pulled out of Haiti now that the immediate earthquake crisis has subsided, Project Medishare remains committed to helping Haitians rebuild their country and healthcare system.
Project Medishare was helping Haiti long before the earthquake, and will be there for many years to come.