What Happens To Haiti When 'The Good Doctors' Leave?

Emergency medical workers are becoming the de facto healthcare system for a country that has long failed to care for its own. That reality has started a delicate and uncomfortable conversation among aid groups and Haitian health authorities over the inevitability that, in the weeks and months to come, much of the foreign medical aid will depart.

Efforts are already underway to persuade wealthy donor nations to fund nascent plans for training a new generation of Haitian medical professionals and spend the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to build appropriate facilities.In the face of so much need, however, such talks have been slow to gain traction, medical aid experts say, leaving many with the unsettling notion that Haiti's ragged network of clinics and hospitals could soon be left largely on its own again.

Of course, the mission of Hopital Adventiste d'Haiti is to reverse this trend by providing sustainable, high quality medical care to the people of Haiti for years to come.

Read the entire article that was recently published in the Los Angeles Times here.