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The political insability agravates the situation of the Hospital. Financially speaking, visitors used to contribute enormously to the employees' salaries. A lack of security in Haiti caused several trips to cancel. The hospital has not been going through financial crisis only those recent months but for more than five years. Crisis has started since the political uprisings with President Jean Bertrand Aristide in Power. The Hospital has lost its international relations and its potential donors due to several reasons.A lack of attention and appreciation given to donors or visitors have also undermined its relations. Since the hospital is non-profit- the personnels need to reinstate or strengthen their relations with existing and prospective donors as well.
One thing, do please remind that the hospital did not have an available fund to finance all its operations. It was
often money collected from the mission groups which kept the hospital on its toes. It is going to detoriate without new strategics developped to manage both its finances and employees. I think it is time for the hospital personnels to step down and shout for helps.
I was born in this hospital and It is sad to hear what the hospital is going through in those days. It is going to be nightmare for the community to see the only main hospital in Leogane is no longer able to serve the community. The hospital needs to now to research its weakness and its strength to balance its continuing operations.
I am hoping the churches continue their supports toward the hospital in those days.
Thanks
Gary
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Hospital Holy-Cross Crosses anAgitated Sea
The situation has become complicated at. Vagueness of firings, disengagement of financial partners, are among other difficulties which followed the revocation of Dr. Jacques Guy Lafontant, General Director of the institution. Holy-Cross Hospital For approximately a year, the situation has been difficult at Hospital Holy-Cross of Léogâne (HSC) which is slow in resuming activities after the revocation of Dr. Jacques Guy Lafontant, in November 2005, as Director General.
With reduced medical personnel, demobilized financial partners and increased medical fees, this hospital complex of the Episcopal Church of Haiti is losing its calling.
Father Jean Berthol Phanord, Administrator General, has not managed to maintain normal operation of the hospital, according to personnel of the institution.
A disagreement with the Bishop of the Diocese of Haiti, Mgr Jean Zachée Duracin, was behind the firing of Dr. Lafontant, very prejudicial for the institution which had a certain standard. Several employees considered to be close to the old direction were reinstated, underlined our sources.
Mi-figue, mi-raisin
Even the entrance of the hospital testifies to its slow down. A market and a station of motor cycles divides the sidewalk of the hospital.
Maintenance of the medical programs, true vocation of the hospital, is today only one business of frontage. Several financial partners left after the revocation of Jacques Guy Lafontant, while those who remain are not regular in the releasing of funds.
Since January 2006, an employee of the hospital says, several financing organizations float between engagement and abandonment, a situation which envelopes the institution in total distress.
About fifty employees have been laid off since the arrival of Father Jean Berthol as administrator general of HSC. Between August and September, 44 people of which 22 are nurses, were removed from duty without continuation nor pay, a victim informed.
Thanked and Reinstated
Five contract personnel who were fired last June were reinstated. Some of them, belonging to the medical personnel, work daily, others were obliged to work elsewhere while keeping their status as employees of the hospital, awaiting retroactive pay covering several months.
Moreover, HSC has shown serious delay of payment. According to our sources, the employees depending on IICO, have not received their wages since January. Others have been waiting for more than three months, a situation which becomes complicated day by day.
A circular posted in the Administrative Section of the hospital mentions the cancellation of reimbursement of expenses or extras because of financial difficulties.
Increase in fees out-raged patients and complicates life so that patients hardly attend the hospital any longer because of the difficult economic situation of the country.
Closings down…
“Everyone went to the hospital. People came from all corners of the country and even our compatriots of the Diaspora were there to be admitted to ensure themselves of the presence of their relatives who could not be by their bedside elsewhereâ€, recalls a former employee of this hospital complex, asking for anonymity.
Today, the situation changes. Léogânais see themselves obliged to move towards other hospital complexes offering better quality care and at better prices, such as Cange in the Department of the Center, Bonne Fine in the South and other centers in. Port-au-Prince
The pharmacy of the hospital has almost completely exhausted its stock. The pharmacist, not being authorized to speak in the name of the institution, chose to keep quiet about the lack of supplies which characterizes this part of the hospital, and refused even viewing the interior of the pharmacy.
The operation of Hospital Holy-Cross of Léogâne, inaugurated in 1968, remains a true enigma today. No person in charge was available to provide information relating to the predicament of the institution.
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