By Leyla Dursunova | Associate
Report Summary: June saw the project providing 42 services for 31 patients. This was a decrease in the number served from previous levels this year. The average number of patients served per month from January to May was 47. The primary barrier to service was not the number of persons requesting assistance, but the supplies available to meet the need. Especially relevant was that this prevented us from making a sufficient number of casts and also the Compressor had malfunctioned. A shipment of new supplies and some key equipment (including a compressor) has now reached Haiti and, hopefully, will enable the project to again reach the service level that had been maintained earlier in the year.
The age distribution of patients has slightly changed to show more diversity and less skewed attention to children. This change is largely due to being able to fabricate more prostheses. Although it is now 4 years since the earthquake devastated Haiti, the project continues to see patients whose disabilities stem from the disaster. Among prosthetic patients, recent clients show a more normal pattern of greater need for below knee than above knee devices.
Training of the Haitian technicians continues as the Senior Prosthetist initiated Module 5 of the technician training protocol and introduced lessons on fitting Knee-Ankle-Foot orthotics. The program has continued its relationship with the former Johanniter sponsored program in Leogane as that facility has provided some supplies to the WRF/ProsthetiKa project.
Data Report: January – June 2014 and Total Since 2010
Table I: NUMBER AND PERCENT OF PATIENTS SERVED BY GENDER, January – June 2014
Returning Patients New Patients Total Patients
N % N % N %
Females 45 49% 101 58% 146 55%
Males 46 51% 74 42% 120 45%
Total 91 175 266
Table Ia: 2010-Present: TOTAL NUMBER AND PERCENT OF PATIENTS SERVED BY GENDER, new patients only.
N %
Females 533 51%
Males 505 49%
Total 1038
Table II: NUMBER AND PERCENT OF PERSONS SERVED BY AGE GROUP, January – June 2014
Returning Patients New Patients Total Patients
N % N % N %
< 5 yrs. 11 12% 40 23% 51 19%
5-12 yrs. 23 25% 33 19% 56 21%
13-19 yrs. 8 9% 9 5% 17 6%
20-29 yrs. 20 22% 14 8% 34 13%
30-39 yrs. 12 13% 17 10% 29 11%
40-49 yrs. 10 11% 16 9% 26 10%
50-59 yrs. 3 3% 29 17% 32 12%
60+ yrs. 4 4% 17 10% 21 8%
Total 91 175 266
Table IIa: TOTAL NUMBER AND PERCENT OF PERSONS SERVED BY AGE GROUP
New patients only: 2010-Present
N %
< 5 yrs. 306 31%
5-12 yrs. 189 19%
13-19 yrs. 69 7%
20-29 yrs. 90 9%
30-39 yrs. 78 8%
40-49 yrs. 85 8%
50-59 yrs. 96 10%
60+ yrs. 89 9%
Total* 1002
*= An additional 36 persons were served by the project in prior years, whose ages were unknown.
Table III: NUMBER AND PERCENT DISTRIBUTION OF DEVICES, January – June 2014
Returning Patients New Patients Total Patients
Type of Device N % N % N %
Above Knee Prosthesis 16 16% 26 13% 42 14%
Below Knee Prosthesis &
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