CRUDEM grew from eight-bed clinic to premier Haitian health facility with help from local volunteers
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Jon M. Fletcher | The Florida Times-Union
CRUDEM, an acronym for Center for the Rural Development of Milot, was founded in 1968 by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart of the Montreal Province. They had built roads, schools, wells and several co-operative ventures and in 1986 constructed a hospital — Hôpital Sacré Coeur. However, they had an operating room without any equipment and no surgeon.
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