Physical Health Haiti Project #5872

Haiti: Reduce Cholera and diarrhea in children

by Medical Teams International

Project Report | Feb 15, 2012
Canaan IDP Camp (with a link to a video update)

By Chiqui Flowers | Marketing Coordinator

The Internally Displaced Peoples’ Camp (IDP) of Canaan is an IDP camp about an hour north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, where approximately 90,000 people have resettled after the 2011 earthquake. The clinic is managed by Medical Teams International Haitian staff nurses and is offered supplimental support by visiting US-based volunteer physicians and nurses. The nurses provide consultations, exams, medications and health training to the population living in Canaan on a daily basis. We support the Canaan IDP Community by:

Staffing and managing daily primary care medical clinics that care for over 18,000 residents of the Canaan IDP camp annually.
Building the clinic structure that serves as a primary care clinic, community center and church.
Providing referrals and arranging transfers of those in need of acute care.
Providing pharmaceutical services at the camp.
Sending 12 primary care and specialty service volunteer teams from the US annually.

See images of the camp and meet some of the people we help at http://www.medicalteams.org/sf/about_us/media_center/videos/Our_work_in_Haiti.aspx.

Back to all project reports

About Project Reports

Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.

If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.