Primary Care Haiti

Our organization aims to create a coordinated educational training program for Haitian physicians and nurses to learn up to date information on primary care and emergency medicine.

Primary Care Haiti aims to develop training programs for Haitian medical professionals. The strategies we use to accomplish our goals are as follows: First we partner with Haitian public hospital systems that share our goals of providing continuing medial education to Haitian healthcare professionals. Second, we partner with healthcare systems outside of Haiti to encourage them to donate gently used lifesaving medical equipment to hospitals around Haiti. In addition, we focus on fundraising efforts to purchase much needed medical supplies and equipment. Third, we pair volunteer physicians from the US with Haitian physicians on the ground to create curriculum geared specifically toward training Haitian medical professionals in primary care and emergency medicine. Fourth, we organize health fairs to encourage patients to receive life saving care free of charge. These health fairs coincide with our medical training courses so Haitian medical professionals are able to immediately put into practice the skills they have acquired. Fifth, we create a competency program to certify that the Haitian medical professional has gone through the training program and is competent in the skill acquired. Sixth, we keep records of our impact in terms of how many Haitian medical professionals were trained and how many patients were examined.

Our organization is capable of meeting our goals because we focus on one healthcare system, one Haitian medical professional, and one life at a time. We have a tremendous staff of volunteer medical personnel who devote their time to creating a quality curriculum that can provide reliable continuing medical education courses to Haitian doctors and nurses. in addition, our organization has developed strong contacts with physicians and community organizers in Haiti which helps us achieve our goals.

Our organization has made tremendous progress thus far. During our June 2017 trip to Haiti, we developed our partnership with L'Hopital Bienfaisance in Pignon, Haiti. We solidified partnerships with organizations in the US and obtained 12 pallets of donated lifesaving medical supplies and equipment. We partnered with DHL who shipped all of our items to Haiti for free. We trained over 100 nursing and medical students and 5 physicians in cervical cancer screening and emergency lifesaving procedures such as basic life support and advanced cardiac life support. Finally, we performed cervical cancer screening for over 700 patients during our health fair. The future for Primary Care Haiti focuses on solidifying partnerships with other Haitian hospital systems, further developing our core teaching curriculum, developing a sustainable screening and treatment program for cervical cancer utilizing the latest mobile technology, and changing the healthcare paradigm in Haiti toward a focus on primary care and emergency medicine.