11 February, 2010
SANTO DOMINGO, D.R. – Ulrick Gaillard, CEO of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is scheduled to travel to the Republic of Haiti on February 12th to meet with the country’s Minister of Health, Dr. Alex Larsen and elected and health officials from the Southeast Department to discuss his organization’s long-term plans, within Haiti’s national recovery/reconstruction objectives, to discuss long-term health needs of populations living in Haiti’s border region.
One day before the earthquake, Gaillard signed in Port-au-Prince an important partnership agreement with Dr. Larsen handing over full control of the Southeast’s only Medical Center to BRA to operate and manage. “Once fully renovated and equipped, the facility, located in Anse-a-Pitres, will have the capacity to deliver complete health services and medicines to 200,000 people from other surrounding communes, including Grand Gosier, Belle Anse and Thiotte,” said Gaillard. He added that BRA’s long-term plan will include water and sanitations and education to prevent diseases.
Since the earthquake, thousands of desperate Haitians travelled to the border into Anse-a-Pitres, seeking the most basic necessities to survive. We fear that the population growth in this tiny community, already overpopulated and plagued by extreme poverty, will result in an increased and desperate need for food, medicines and medical care—a demand that BRA is willing to meet collaboratively with Haiti’s Ministry of Health.
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