Visitation Hospital, a comprehensive-care facility in a rural part of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere will serve the desperate medical needs of thousands, educating to prevent illness, saving lives. It is using solar panels for electricity and be naturally-ventilated. Most materials will be procured locally and the construction is employing many local workers.
Location
On a hill near ocean
Petite RiviereHaiti
Project posted by Doarch
- Climate - Tropical
- Context - Rural
- Culturally Sensitive
- Disaster Mitigation - Earthquake-resistant
- Disaster Mitigation - Hurricane-resistant
- Education Facility - Training Center
- Energy - Alternative Energy Sources
- Energy - Efficiency
- Green Design/ Practices
- Health Clinic
- Healthcare
- Hospital
- Low Maintenance
- Materials - Local/Indigenous
- Off-Grid
- Solar - Active
- Haiti
Comments
I'd love to know what wound up happening to this project. Did it stand through the quake and is it running as smoothly as it had hoped to? I'd love to find out!
It was not damaged in the quake.
The clinic is in daily operation and has had a big impact on the health in the Nippes dept of Haiti.
See www.visitationhospital.org