Bendson Louima

Dr. Bendson Louima (born 1979)[1] is a Haitian physician. He is the only medical doctor in the rural community of Caracol in Haiti.[2] He is the founder of Médecins Sans Frontières Suisse Cap-Haïtien (i.e. Doctors Without Borders Switzerland Cap-Haitïen), an entity for the treatment of cholera in Haiti.[1] He sits on the Board of Advisors of Emedex International,[1] an organization whose mission is to build sustainable change in emergency healthcare globally.[3]

Background and training

Dr. Louima was born in Port-de-Paix, Haiti on February 5, 1979.[1] He attended medical school at Université Notre Dame d'Haïti from 2002 to 2008 and was an intern at Hôpital Universitaire Justinien, Cap-Haïtien from 2008 to 2009.[1] Dr. Louima then completed one year of social service in Caracol in the northeastern region of Haiti.[1] He is also involved with pediatric diseases at the Hôpital Saint-François de Sales, Port-au-Prince, training in obstetrics and gynecology at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann in Brussels, Belgium, and with HIV-AIDS at the University of Miami and at the Hôpital Universitaire Justinien.[1]

Medical work and teaching

He is the medical director of the Centre de Santé Sainte-Elizabeth in Caracol and also founded Médecins Sans Frontières - Suisse-Cap-Haitïen for the treatment of cholera in Haiti. In addition, Dr. Louima teaches First Aid, anatomy and small surgery classes at a school for nurses’ aids.[1] In 2012, Dr. Louima visited the University of Georgia School of Social Work to talk to the students of two doctors who had met him as volunteers of a clinic in Terrier-Rouge, Haiti.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Board of Advisors". Emedex International. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Emedex International Partners with Clinique Espérance Vie". Bethlehem Ministry. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Missions and Goals". Emedex International. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Haitian Physician Visits School of Social Work". University of Georgia School of Social Work. Retrieved 15 March 2015.


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