Aid Spawns Backlash in Haiti

Despite increased international response to its devastating earthquake, Haitian health care has not managed to be revitalized. Haiti's most prominent hospital, L'Hôpital de l'Universite d'Etat d'Haiti, is still not getting the medical reconnaissance it deserves. This is primarily due in part to the the bureaucracy that surrounds new allocation of funds from the Haitian government to charitable organizations. The NGOs also seem to have a disconnect in the implementation of this cost-allocation system. They are losing the ability to funnel the much-needed money through their top-down implementation approach. While there are clearly defined goals in helping this hospital care for earthquake victims and general patients, the objectives have not seemed to translate so explicitly to the lower levels in the chain of command.