Zanmi Lasante is a sister organization to the Boston-based Partners In Health that operates out of Cange in central Haiti. The name, Zanmi Lasante, means Partners In Health in Kreyòl.[1] It was built in 1985 to treat patients incapable of paying hospital fees.[2][3] Its facilities include two operating wards, "adult and pediatric inpatient wards, an infectious disease center, an outpatient clinic, a women's health clinic (Proje Sante Fanm), ophthalmology and general medicine clinics, a laboratory, a pharmaceutical warehouse, a Red Cross blood bank, and radiographic services." It currently has eight sites in the area of the central plateau of Haiti and serves over 500,000 people.[2]
Services cost the equivalent of about eighty American cents for everyone "except for women and children, the destitute, and anyone seriously injured." Additionally, no one may be turned away.[4]