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December 2011 Trip Report & Newsletter

Monday, January 2nd, 2012
Haiti Clinic December Newsletter

Dear Haiti Clinic Family
I just returned from leading a group of dedicated volunteer doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists and assistants at our clinic in Cite Soleil.  In two days time we helped over 800 people with critical medical care.  Our patients live with/have cancers, diabetes, tuberculosis, AIDS,  malaria, and other severe infections.  We address their dehydration and malnutrition, provide them with treatments again intestinal parasites, impetigo and fungal infections. Pictured here, A volunteer measures a child’s height.

Baby Boy Laurendy
Many of our patients are young children crippled by chronic diarrhea and infections.  Many are a fraction of their expected weight and height. Baby boy Laurendy (pictured to the left)  is a a severely ill new born baby we cared for on Saturday.   His mother had no access to prenatal care and an equipped, clean birthing facility.  His suffering bespeaks the need for our clinic. His plight inspires us.   With your support, Haiti Clinic can continue to provide medical and nutritional care for our neediest patients.

Baby Boy Laurendy shown above.
2011
We staged 10 weekend clinics where 31 doctors, 11 nurses, 14 non clinical volunteers, 2 dentists, 2 pharmacists, 2 physician assistants, 1 paramedic, 3 premed students and 1 dental hygientist treated over 7500 people. Each paid his/her own expenses. We bought $28,925.55 worth of medications and supplies from our wholesale providers. A Haiti Clinic volunteer cares for a little girl (right picture). Retail price for this would have been over $400,000.
To provide ongoing care for our patients in between weekend clinics, we recruited and paid for a staff of 4 nurses, one pharmacy tech, a clinic manager and a physician.  This staff treats approximately 60 patients a day.
We started a well baby and child clinic including preventive care, clean water supply and healthcare education.   Clean water and knowledge of disease prevention will reduce many of the devastating illnesses we treated this weekend.
We inaugurated the “dome,” a prefab building, which doubled our clinical space. Haiti Clinic acquired adjacent land, where we plan to build a new clinic. We are training Haitian nurses, pharmacy techs and physicians.

2012
We have already started a malnutrition correction clinic, which will supply protein supplements to combat kwashiorkor, failure to thrive and starvation.
We will begin our women’s center, which will provide birth control, prenatal care and healthcare education to the women in Cite Soleil.  We will also start a birthing unit for expectant mothers.  We are helping to bring fresh, clean water to our neighborhood to prevent water-borne illness such as cholera.
We will break ground on our new clinic building. I am very excited and encouraged by our accomplishments and our future plans.
Your help made this possible.   All of your contributions prevent devastating illness for children like Baby Boy Laurendy.  I hope that you will increase your support, so that we can help the children of Cite Soleil to grow up healthy and strong.
Neil Heskel, MD
President
Haiti Clinic
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September 2011 Trip Report

Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

September 2011 Trip

I have just returned from a very successful clinic in Cite Soleil. 11 volunteers from Colorado, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Texas and Florida spent 3 days caring for over 650 patients. Some of these patients were very ill and all were extremely poor. We provided them with free medical care and medications. Our full-time, permanent Haitian physician, Dr. Garçon, will see many of them for follow-up care in the next few weeks.
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Volunteer Dustinn Keeling Shares His Experience After the July Team trip

Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Fome the left, volunteers Dustinn, Kristen, & Matt

Fome the left, volunteers Dustinn, Kristen, & Matt

I had never been to Haiti before but have heard many reports from my friend Matt Parvus. When we touched down in Port-au-Prince I was speechless. We began making our way from the airport to the orphanage we were staying at and the whole time we saw poverty. People living in the streets, no homes, no clean water. This trip was extremely special to me because it was an experience I got to share with my sister Kristen.  Our group was outstanding we had a team of brilliant doctors and an amazing support staff. This trip, from what I understand, was a bit different than others.  Instead of staying at the hotel where the volunteers usually stay, Dr. Parvus arranged for us to stay at the New Life children’s orphanage which, in my opinion, was one of the most rewarding parts of the trip. Not only is it much more cost effective but we also were given the chance to spend time with a great group of kids. We spent 2 days at the clinic in Cité Soleil and WOW was it eye opening. I thought that working in an operating room at our local hospital would have prepared me pretty well but frankly noting could have prepared me for what we saw. In those two short days we saw over 700 patients. Cases ranging from scabies to HIV, we saw them all. Our teams doctors ranged in specialties…we had Emergency medicine, Gynecology, Opthamology, Infectious Disease and even Gastroenterology and we used them all! There were lines of people waiting to be seen by us and we did our best to see each and every one of them.  Each day when we left the clinic, we were bombarded with people begging for food, money or anything they could get and honestly you want to help everyone but you can’t.

The trip was an amazing humbling experience and I recommend to any one who’s thinking about going to DO IT! You will never be the same again.

Thanks to CAN-DO.org for Building a Dome at Haiti Clinic!

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011


Visit CAN-DO.ORG or HaitiDomesProject.com for more information about the wonderful work that this organization does.

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