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- We are 12 cardologist for 10 million Inhabitant!
- Health system is undermined!
- They really have little equipment.
- The goal is that we don't say we keep everything for one institution or another.
The goal is trying to help every institution.
- Future only is not beautiful.
- We need help from abroad
we need a logistical support to help us
formatting the system and
create again specialties who disappear.
- There is nowhere in the country a private hospital offering intensive care
Even a hospital like ours
which is one of the most structured hospital in the country
We have no breathing apparatus.
- We are restreined by the low purchasing power of the patients
which reflects on the hospital
preventing it from buying material.
- The federation thanks to its 50 establishments has a strong strike force.
We already received fundings to send containers
Now we also have the means thanks to these institutions
to furnish material.
- There are medical specialties that disappear in the country!
Such as 12 Cardiologists for 10 million of inhabitants,
we have 3 oncologists, 3 oncologists for 10 million of inhabitants.
And professional training for imagery, sonography, scanner doesn't exist.
So all these are specialties doomed to disappear.
- We didn't think about it at first after talking with them
we thought it could be interesting to perform some trainings for doctors and nurses
with our establishments. This is a real plus
allowing a long term vision.
This can really strengthen our collaboration.
- There is no technician, bio-technician in Haiti. They don't exist !
There are hospitals with complex materials
Nobody can take actions on these.
- One of the analysis we made at that time
is that our help would have totally been unnoticed
in the amount of helps given in the 6 months or the first year.
- So NGO's were the big stumbling block
We needed them when they arrived obviously.
We survived the first days after the earthquake and hopefully everybody arrived!
- We built the project in that context:
"Let's wait and see if international help
would help sustain local structures"
- Instead of setting up tents
we went to tell them : "Listen
Let's do this together!
Use local human ressources
we will help you and you will help us."
The answer was simple
They answered us with a No
Why ? - Because...
To raise funds, you must be in a tent.
That's a pity because Haitian medicine suffers from it.
And the day they'll leave, we'll have to pay way too much for this.
It was biased. They raked the good nurses in good hospitals.
Paying them twice as much.
Leaving behind disasters because
at some point the nurse with the most seniority in the hospital was here only for 4 month.
they took so many nurses!
- From the material point of view as I explained earlier
in the country there are 3 or 4 scanners for 10 million inhabitants.
And a hospital like the Canapé Vert hospital, which is one of the most at the forefront
can't afford to buy one.
We have no MRI either.
No ambulance for a hospital. An inconceivable thing!
- We met practitioners of very big value
who want to solve that situation.
That what leads us today to continue the mission.
Trying to bring it till the end
because I believe we can count on them
and behind it will not be a one shot thing but something we can build
with people ready to do what it takes to make it work.
- My parents are Haitian
I didn't live there, I was lucky to live in Europe
to receive european education, to have a professional career in Europe.
I am a privileged person.
And in this context
if we can help...
It reminds me Kennedy's quote
"Don't ask what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country"