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Port au Prince, Haiti, Mar 28, 2017 \/ 05:37 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Catholics are banding together to bring life-saving health care to rural areas in one of the poorest countries in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key thing that I saw was partnership. Catholic Medical Mission Board can\u2019t do it alone,\u201d Adam Kerrigan told CNA.<\/p>\n

Kerrigan is the Catholic Medical Mission Board\u2019s senior vice president for partnerships. In an interview, he described the new hospital his organization helped build in C\u00f4tes-de-Fer on Haiti\u2019s Southern coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe work with the bishops\u2019 conference, with the ministry of health, and with the community together,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

The Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan Center for Health, named for a late board member of the CMMB and the former auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn, opened on Haiti\u2019s southeastern coast on Monday, providing health care to the area\u2019s population who previously would have had to travel for hours to the nearest hospital for care.<\/p>\n

After a catastrophic 2010 earthquake shook the country, most of the aid response focused on the country\u2019s capital of Port-au-Prince, Kerrigan told CNA.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the earthquake, there was \u201clittle attention was being paid to the Southern tier,\u201d which was just as devastated as the north but harder to get to, Kerrigan said. The local bishop had asked the Catholic Medical Mission Board to bring supplies and volunteers to the area, which they did.<\/p>\n

Bishop Guire Poulard was eventually moved to the archdiocese of Port-au-Prince but he still insisted that a hospital should be built in the south.<\/p>\n

With the help of a $2 million matching grant from Mercy Health, a Cincinnati-based Catholic health care system, construction began on the hospital in C\u00f4tes-de-Fer in 2013. It will serve 50,000 Haitians in the region.<\/p>\n

Child and maternal mortality is a big problem in the region, Kerrigan said, and the hospital will be primarily addressing the health of women and children. According to recent UN estimates, Haitian women have \u201ca one in 80 chance of dying due to pregnancy or child birth, compared to the region-wide risk of one in 510.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNutrition is really poor there, they have really poor crops,\u201d he said, and so in addition to \u201ctrying to get the moms to come to the hospital and deliver\u201d where they can receive the proper care, the board is also working to improve nutrition and reduce anemia in the area.<\/p>\n

Also, \u201cclean, potable water is essential,\u201d he added, as the water in the area has high salinity.<\/p>\n

The hospital was a partnership effort between the board, Mercy Health, the local church, the community, and Haiti\u2019s public health ministry, he insisted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe community was at the very base of this beginning. We assessed what their needs were as they told us, and worked with them on those issues. We have a really strong commitment from the community to work with us to improve their health overall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Americans were quite responsive to the fundraising for the $2 million, Kerrigan said, from individuals and corporations to foundations and health systems contributing.<\/p>\n

A \u201cteam from the Mercy Health system of doctors, nurses\u201d and other medical staff also traveled down to Haiti to help local staff, he added.<\/p>\n

The board has also started a CHAMPS program, or \u201cchildren and mothers\u2019 partnerships,\u201d in order to provide a health center and better sanitation, clean water and nutrition in the area.<\/p>\n

The whole health care initiative will be a 15-to-20 year project, Kerrigan acknowledged. Over the next 10 years, dental and ophthalmology facilities will be added to the hospital,\u201d CMMB stated, and future doctors and nurses will be trained at the center.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a long-term struggle to overcome the health needs of a poor, rural community. And C\u00f4tes-de-Fer can be a model for us for the rest of Haiti,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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