Bahama Visitor

One thing we strive to do at Visitation Clinic is to become a model for how rural healthcare should be provided, not just in Haiti but anywhere in the world.  As such, we want the clinic to be the kind of place that is modern, impeccably clean, and the staff is highly competent and compassionate.  But it is hard to know how good a job you really are doing.  After all, most of our patients come from nearby and they don't have a great deal of mobility.  So even when they express gratitude and appreciation, we are never quite sure how we would measure up on the world's stage.  But on occasion we do get some feedback from a traveler who finds himself in the poor, but picturesque, town of Petite Riviere and requires some health care.  Today's email brought such a story from our administrator:

A priest from the Bahamas, Fr. Alain Mary L., attended the clinic while visiting his relatives in Petite Riviere de Nippes. He said that he was very satisfied to the kind of service that he received at the clinic, and particularly to the welcoming and satisfying clinic atmosphere. ''I have never seen and attended a pleasant and clean clinic like this in Haiti'', he said. ''I hope to come back next year and bring some of the Bahamian community to see this marvelous development in PRDN"