Training new healthcare professionals is one of the most concrete acts of resistance to the decline of the Haitian healthcare system. It prevents collapse, maintains continuity and protects the future.
On September 20, twenty-seven new specialists, twenty-five doctors and two nurse anesthetists, completed their residencies within the Zanmi Lasante network. This achievement is not the result of ideal conditions, but of an exemplary collective commitment in a context of uncertainty and adversity. When the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais had to suspend its activities, several hospitals in the network opened their doors and their hearts to welcome the residents, thus ensuring the continuity of their training. This solidarity, this shared resilience, perfectly illustrates what it means to strengthen a healthcare system: it means enabling it to stand firm, even when one of its pillars falters.
On September 20 2025, 27 new specialists completed their residencies within the Zanmi Lasante network.
These new specialists carry with them more than a diploma: they embody perseverance, hope and the promise of a future where every patient in Haiti can count on quality care. They represent the continuity of an ambitious national project, that of a strong public health system, capable of ensuring succession and building the future on its own foundations. Each professional trained and retained in the country is a victory against dependency, a stone added to the edifice of our local institutions, a guarantee of more equitable access to care for all. Medical and paramedical training is not just a part of our mission : it’s the beating heart of it.
Since its inception, Zanmi Lasante’s medical training program has trained over 280 specialists. More than 40% of them now practice in the public hospitals of the ZL/MSPP network. This figure, far from insignificant, testifies to a collective success and a deep conviction: it is possible to train, retain and promote talent in Haiti, despite the challenges.
But such a commitment comes at a cost. Trainers and supervisors bear both the burden of caring and that of passing on, often in precarious conditions. Their perseverance is a form of invisible leadership, one that maintains quality and ethics where many would have given up.
Training new healthcare professionals means resisting the collapse of the system.
Training supervisors means rebuilding the foundations of knowledge. And to persevere, despite fatigue and fear, is to affirm that the health of the Haitian people remains a collective asset that we refuse to abandon.
This is the conviction that drives Zanmi Lasante: the deep faith that the future of healthcare in Haiti will be built neither in the easy way nor in expectation, but in competence, rigor and solidarity. It is these values, embodied every day by our teams, that form the true foundations of a strong, stable and dignified national healthcare system.
To train a healthcare professional in Haiti is to invest in the country’s stability. Behind every resident, every trainer, there is a commitment to life, dignity and the future. Your support helps maintain these training programs, equip hospitals, and ensure that the next doctors, nurses and specialists stay on to serve the communities that need them most. Donate to support medical training in Haiti