Lesotho Teams Innovating After Bridge Collapses on Lone Road to Mountain Health Center
Community members helping PIH staff carry patients over a footbridge to reach facility that serves 8,500 people in isolated region
Posted on Mar 3, 2021 Community members young and old walk past fuel cylinders on the crumbled Mants’onyane bridge in rural Lesotho, where the Jan. 27 collapse has cut off access to Methalaneng Health Center. The center serves 36 communities totaling about 8,500 people. PIH teams have had to constantly innovate to maintain services and supplies at the health center.
Photo by Mpho Marole/PIH
The collapse of a bridge on the lone road to an isolated health center high in the mountains of Lesotho has Partners In Health teams finding innovative ways to maintain care, including carrying patients on stretchers over a narrow footbridge during rainy season, sometimes at night, and sometimes including pregnant women who need transportation to the district hospi
PIH in Images: 2020
From homes to hospitals, on rough roads and steep slopes, from capitals to rural communities, these moments in time give a glimpse of how PIHers around the world joined together this year to respond to COVID-19, continue lifesaving services across all of our health care areas, and show that health is a human right
Posted on Dec 23, 2020 Health workers with Socios En Salud, as PIH is known in Peru, work in full PPE to provide vital care and support in Lima.
Photo by William Castro Rodriguez for PIH
In 2020, PIHers around the world joined in a unified fight against an unknown virus, visiting patients at homes, health centers, and hospitals, to provide care and social support as COVID-19 spiraled into a pandemic.
Ekip Solid: A Conversation with Dr. Melino Ndayizigiye
The executive director of PIH in Lesotho talks about his dedication to rural medicine, his love of animals, and responding to a pandemic during his first year at the helm
Posted on Dec 16, 2020 Dr. Melino Ndayizigiye, then clinical director for PIH in Lesotho, speaks at a 2017 cross-site meeting of PIH s non-communicable disease team. Beside him is Jason Beste, then a medical officer with PIH in Liberia; Dr. Marta Lado, then chief medical officer for PIH Sierra Leone; and Dr. Yusuf Dibba, then deputy medical officer for PIH Sierra Leone. Dr. Ndayizigiye became executive director of PIH in Lesotho earlier this year.