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Where there were no doctors
Our base in rural Mare-Joffrey brings primary care to an underserved region that had none. A visit costs about US $.50.
Our primary practice does everything from treating hypertension and diabetes to sewing up this boy's torn knee.
... and today has a new home underway.
Our base in rural Mare-Joffrey brings primary care to an underserved region that had none. A visit costs about US $.50.
Twice a month we jump on motorcycles with medicine and equipment and set up pop-up clinics at marketplaces, community centers or even rural discos in six remote villages in our zone. This is often where we encounter the sickest patients.
In rural Invite, happiness is a new child and a visit by HHP's traveling clinic.
Most of our mobile outreach is done by motorcycle caravan. Our conductor Sandy may be the only moto man in Haiti with a Henry Mancini mix tape.
Twice a month we jump on motorcycles with medicine and equipment and set up pop-up clinics at marketplaces, community centers or even rural discos in six remote villages in our zone. This is often where we encounter the sickest patients.
Haiti has the world's highest incidence of cervical cancer, but it doesn't have to. We can spot it with a simple vinegar test.
In Thiotte, women with positive cervical cancer screenings will have the bad cells frozen off in one short visit.
A patient gives her Nurse NAME a big hug after her cervical cancer cells are removed with cryotherapy in the border town of Ansapit.
Haiti has the world's highest incidence of cervical cancer, but it doesn't have to. We can spot it with a simple vinegar test.