Programme
Spinal Cord Injury Care and Rehabilitation Programme
Main objectives
- Provide clinical in-patient rehabilitation services for people with spinal cord injury (SCI)
- Safe and appropriate discharge from hospital of patients with SCI
- Capacity building for Haitian health professionals to provide rehabilitation support for patients with SCI
- Training to families/caregivers for spinal cord injured patients
- Follow-up through mobile teams of people with SCI living in the community
Name of the partner
Our work today
Support for the construction of a rehabilitation centre and patient wards as well as rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injuries in the southern half of Haiti.
Current activities
Current activities
- Clinical/rehabilitative care for patients with SCI
- Discharge plans and home assessments/visits before and after discharge
- Training for health professionals and SCI patients
- Education and social support of families
- Community awareness
About the partner
The Saint Boniface Haiti Foundation is a non-profit organisation with headquarters in Randolph, MA (USA) and a field office in Fond des Blancs that has been working in Haiti for over 25 years to support the St. Boniface Hospital. Its primary mission is to provide health care to the poor of Haiti in the southern and south-eastern departments.
Saint Boniface’s health programmes consist of a 60-bed hospital with in-patient facilities, Villa Clinic, and a myriad of community-oriented health activities (outreach services, vaccination campaigns, initial and further training of community health helpers).
The hospital secures basic medical care for the local population. A small fee is charged for medical services, though extremely poor patients are exempted from paying fees.
St. Boniface also works in the areas of education and community development.
SCI patients have a low life expectancy in resource poor settings. The St. Boniface Hospital is one of only two rehabilitation centres that offers support for this particularly vulnerable population in all of Haiti.
St. Boniface is the only site to which hospitals in the capital and southern regions of Haiti can refer patients with SCI to ensure survival of these patients, while also providing rehabilitative therapy to ensure better independence for patients upon discharge.
Saint Boniface’s health programmes consist of a 60-bed hospital with in-patient facilities, Villa Clinic, and a myriad of community-oriented health activities (outreach services, vaccination campaigns, initial and further training of community health helpers).
The hospital secures basic medical care for the local population. A small fee is charged for medical services, though extremely poor patients are exempted from paying fees.
St. Boniface also works in the areas of education and community development.
SCI patients have a low life expectancy in resource poor settings. The St. Boniface Hospital is one of only two rehabilitation centres that offers support for this particularly vulnerable population in all of Haiti.
St. Boniface is the only site to which hospitals in the capital and southern regions of Haiti can refer patients with SCI to ensure survival of these patients, while also providing rehabilitative therapy to ensure better independence for patients upon discharge.
