. >> reporter: conner shapiro is the president of health equity international, which oversees saint boniface. he first came here in 2003, and his wife is haitian. on the day the earthquake struck, he was at work. >> massive shaking. all the patients came running out of the hospital. all the staff, everyone was running into the yard. we didn't know what had happened. my wife was pregnant with our now 9-year-old, was in port-au-prince at the time, and i didn't know what was going on. >> reporter: i can only imagine what that was like. >> i was very fortunate that my wife and our daughter, they survived, and many people were not as fortunate. it was a horrible situation. >> reporter: instead of falling apart, boniface has only grown. they now get 500 patients a day and went from an annual operating budget of $250,000 when shapiro took over to $8 million today. people risk their lives to get here because they have no other choice. this is the entrance road to the hospital. it is full of ruts. it is mountainous, passable only by dirt bikes like this and four-by-four vehicles. these bikes effectiv

. >> reporter: conner shapiro is the president of health equity international, which oversees saint boniface came here in 2003, and his wife is haitian.

. >> reporter: conner shapiro is the president of health equity international, which oversees st.oniface. people risk their lives to get here because they have no other choice. for more than two million people on the southern peninsula, this is the only place to get an emergency c-section. the only place with a neonatal intensive care unit. >> we have 35 babies here. over 95% of these babies were born here at this hospital in the maternity center. >> reporter: if this unit weren't here, what would happen to these kids? >> it's very difficult to talk about, but if this unit wasn't here, these babies would all die. really, it's about investing in the haitian people, in the physicians, the health practitioner, the nurse, lab teches who are here already. and we need to invest in them to provide that care. there are lots of excuses for why things can go wrong in haiti. we just don't accept any of them, because we know that this is the right thing to do. >> reporter: in fond du blanc, haiti, jeff glor, cbs news. >>> straight ahead -- >> why suicide is proving more deadly to firefighters