“It’s not great if you’re a surgeon and you have to think about getting the generator going.” Paul Farmer, Partners In Health co-founder.

Electricity is the most critical of resources needed to run a hospital and Haiti's Central Plateau power is intermittent, going out on average three hours a day, so providing enough continuous power was a prime consideration in the design of the 320 bed Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais teaching hospital built after the 2010 earthquake. The grid connected rooftop PV installed will ensure dependable power for an outpatient clinic, a women’s health outpatient clinic, a community health clinic focusing on malnutrition issues, women’s health inpatient clinic (79 beds) including labor/delivery wards and neonatal intensive care unit, surgery suite with 6 operating rooms, pharmacy depot, men’s, women’s and children’s wards accommodating 110 beds total, TB isolation ward, dental clinic, and administration center with large community meeting room. The hospital also sends excess power back to the grid.

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