Building Health Care Capacity
For over 20 years, CCH has been transforming lives by building the capacity of Haitians to deliver better health care. CCH works with local hospitals and clinics to treat patients and train local staff in areas such as OB/GYN, Urology, Orthopedics, Biomedical, Inventory, Infection Control, Patient Care and Laproscopic Surgery. CCH worked primarily in the Northern Department until the January 2010 earthquake, when CCH was invited by several organizations on the ground to care for the critically injured in the southeast. Current projects include:
Hospital Saint Michel
Goals:
1) To work in cooperation with, and by request of, the Ministry of Health, CCH assists in modernizing health care facilities in the southeast by increasing Saint Michel’s surgical ability in terms of health professional training, equipment provision and knowledge transfer;
2) To send rotating U.S. health professionals each month to train Haitian health professionals in advanced surgical procedures, anesthesiology, infection control, patient care, biomedical repair and other health-related topics.
3) To install and equip a more advanced operating room and primary care equipment.
Description: As a result of CCH’s successful efforts to raise the capacity of Haitians to provide better health care in Pignon and of providing continuous emergency and primary care following the earthquake, CCH has been asked to help modernize health care in the southeast, specifically at Saint Michel Hospital. Saint Michel is known as the “morgue” because of its poor-quality health care. The Ministry of Health was going to close Saint Michel but has decided to keep it open because of training and support from MSF (Medicins Sans Frontiers) and CCH.
Since the earthquake, CCH has shipped in 36 tons of medical supplies including a mobile OR unit, treated over 15,000 people, sent in 150 doctors and nurses to earthquake affected areas, provided 3 tons of food and water, and 1 ton of tarps, and coordinates and distributes 15 tons of medical supplies in the Haiti's Southeast.
Rehabilitation and Development Center (Jacmel, Haiti)
Goals:
1) To provide rehabilitation and development services to the disabled and injured, including post- surgical, limb loss, developmental delay, trauma, prosthetics and orthotics for children and adults at Saint Michel and the Mission House;
2) To provide training for Haitian rehab professionals in rehabilitation and developmental services and build the capacity of Haitian health professionals to understand and deliver these services;
3) To return both children and adults back to a productive life in their communities;
4) To truly heal patients by providing an avenue for sharing Christ through physical healing.
Primary Care and Cholera Treatment Clinic
Goals:
1) To work in cooperation with, and at the request of the Ministry of Health, to assist in providing preventative and curative health care to 150,000 refugees and poor families in the southeast. To treat those infected with cholera.
2) To send rotating U.S. health professionals each month to train Haitian health professionals in preventative and curative care, cholera treatment and prevention, infection control, patient care and other health-related topics.
3) To install and equip a more advanced operating room and primary care equipment.
Description: As a result of CCH’s successful efforts to raise the capacity of Haitians to provide better health care in Pignon and to provide continuous emergency and primary care following the earthquake, CCH has been asked to help modernize health care in the southest.