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A Look Inside Our Earthquake Mobile Clinics
The August 14 earthquake devastated communities throughout southern Haiti. Many of these communities are remote, isolated, and had little access to even the most basic health services before the disaster. The earthquake has since destroyed or damaged more than 66% of the region’s few existing hospitals and health clinics, further limiting access to the health services survivors need—and deserve.
HEI/SBH began mobile clinics to meet these communities’ extraordinary need for health services and support. At these clinics patients receive basic health services, food, and other resources to help meet their most immediate needs. We’re also supporting the region’s remaining health facilities by bringing essential medicines and supplies, providing basic primary care services, and evacuating critically injured patients to St. Boniface Hospital. By taking on the burden of care, impacted communities throughout southern Haiti can focus on healing, rebuilding, and recovering.
Below are scenes from our recent mobile clinics, and of the incredible destruction the earthquake wrought throughout the region.
A community health nurse cares for a young patient injured in the earthquake.
Crowds of patients and earthquake survivors wait to be seen by a community health nurse at a recent mobile clinic.
Dr. Miliane Clermont, Deputy Director General at SBH, examines a patient’s broken leg.
The community health clinic sees hundreds of patients each day at our earthquake mobile clinics.
A young child touches their guardian’s face as they meet with a community health professional.
A community health nurse checks a patient’s blood pressure.
A community health professional examines a young patient after the earthquake at a mobile clinic.
Dr. Miliane examines a patient’s injured arm.
A young boy touches a patient’s cast at a mobile clinic.
Thousands of homes in southern Haiti were destroyed in the earthquake, leaving families homeless.
Our community health team traverses a road broken by the earthquake as they drive to their next mobile clinic site.
Throughout southern Haiti, the earthquake devastated buildings large and small just like this one.
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