Strengthening community health is our priority.
- H.O.P.E Haiti
- Jun 2, 2023
- 1 min read
Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa works solely in the commune of Borgne, Haiti. Borgne is an agricultural and fishing community situated on Haiti's beautiful northern peninsula. For more than two decades, we have worked as part of a formal partnership with USAID and the Haitian Ministry of Health to provide health and dental care, community-based education programs, and economic vitality.
Recently, team members Dr. Dan Lapp and Mike Shields visited Borgne for a “pulse check.” This trip highlighted the enormous challenges we are facing due to the runaway inflation in Haiti and the severely reduced funding from Haiti’s Ministry of Health.
Alongside medical director Thony Voltaire, our team took the time to review the needs and priorities of the commune. We then carefully weighed each one, focusing on how to deliver the most effective healthcare services within the budget restrictions we are facing.
In the absence of medical treatment, waterborne illness, communicable disease, and maternal and infant mortalities run rampant. The health of this commune is at stake. Join us in supporting our priorities:
- Emergency Room Training and Equipment
The hospital ER is open 24/7/365 and receives a full range of accident and illness patients.
- STD Testing
Current practices are broad spectrum testing which lack the specific tests to isolate STDs and treat effectively.
- Minor Surgeries and Operating Room
The surgical center was closed two years ago due to budget constraints. Given the lack of open health facilities across Haiti, this has become an urgent need. The goal is to reopen the surgery center in stages.
People trust us in Borgne because we walk with them.
Join us today.
I appreciate you emphasizing the value of community-based health programs in Haiti. Your emphasis on empowering community health workers brought to mind a nursing student I supervised who managed to balance her dissertation on maternal care with fieldwork in rural clinics. She used Nursing Dissertation Writers to organize her research on neonatal mortality, allowing her to concentrate on patient care, much how Hope for Haiti's training programs prepare communities to address systemic issues. Both situations demonstrate how grassroots effect is increased by strategic support, whether in academics or healthcare. How do others balance the obligations of academics with fieldwork?