Update for International Medical Corps: Haiti on February 22, 2010

As of February 19, 2010 International Medical Corps is operating 15 mobile clinic sites covering 18 sites. Outside Port-au-Prince, International Medical Corps operations now include Petit-Goave, Grande Goave, Petionville, Boloise, Carrefour, Jacmal, Gressier, and Miragoane. Services, including emergency and primary health care, maternal and child health, immunization and communicable disease surveillance, and health education, are provided through a combination of both static and mobile medical clinics.

We’re currently supporting 6 static clinics in underserved areas.

Mobile sites are referring severely malnourished to Stabilization Centers where they will receive fortified food and specialized medical care.

In the Dominican Republic, International Medical Corps have a doctor and a nurse working in Hôpital Bon Samaritain near the border. In the first ten days after the earthquake, 270 patients were transported into hospital for acute medical care.

Our assessment teams have identified local health care workers already working in existing clinics that need additional support. We will supplement existing, very limited services with additional personnel, supplies and medicines.

International Medical Corps will work with local health care providers to train clinical medical professionals and community health workers to fill the gaps left from the death and displacement of health workers, as well as the damage of health infrastructure.

Currently we are seeing 50 to 100 patients a day at each clinic and we anticipate this will remain constant over the next 3 months. Through the mobile and static clinics International Medical Corps is reaching a target population of 320,000.