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UPDATE FROM HAITI
Mobilizing local health teams, International Medical Corps has implemented four cholera treatment centers (CTC’s) at hospitals in Gonaives, Verrettes, St. Michel, and Ennery in Artibonite region, where patients are being administered IV solution, oral rehydration salts, and doxycycline to treat cholera and given water purification tablets. At all of these hospitals, International Medical Corps is also working to improve hospital waste management and infection control. International Medical Corps has trained five doctors and 31 nurses on cholera prevention, management, and treatment throughout the region and plans to expand the training to all nurses working in the four hospitals as well as staff working in the connected dispensaries and health centers.
In response to confirmed cholera cases in Port-au-Prince, International Medical Corps has mobilized existing primary health clinics in the city to offer cholera-related services. Our staff will administer oral rehydration salts and IVs as needed and provide referrals and transport critical cases. International Medical Corps is coordinating with partners in camps where it has clinics to implement community education campaigns on cholera prevention, identification, and treatment - and clinic staff are being trained in cholera treatment and management.
International Medical Corps was on the ground 22 hours after the January 12 , 2010 earthquake, and has been there since. Our teams of doctors and nurses provide life-saving medical care, and train community health care workers to support long term medical capacity building.
ABOUT INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
International Medical Corps has extensive experience in cholera outbreak response, management, and prevention, with its most recent responses in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Iraq. Clean water, sanitation, and hygiene are also one of its top organizational priorities, with such programs in countries including Haiti, Somalia, Kenya, and the DRC.
Since its inception nearly 25 years ago, International Medical Corps’ mission has been consistent: relieve the suffering of those impacted by war, natural disaster, and disease, by delivering vital health care services that focus on training. This approach of helping people help themselves is critical to returning devastated populations to self-reliance.
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