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ICC Grace Children's Hospital and Clinics, "Cholera Treatment Unit- CTU" - Bahon

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Website: http://www.internationalchildcare.org/

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Mission: Grace Children’s Hospital, founded in 1967, is the flagship ministry of International Child Care. Grace Children’s Hospital is recognized as Haiti’s leading medical facility dedicated to the treatment of children with tuberculosis (TB). Each year, the hospital receives thousands of children who are suffering from TB, HIV and other diseases.

Children who are seriously ill are admitted to the sixty-bed inpatient ward, where they receive constant care from the hospital’s all-Haitian staff. Both children and adults can be treated at one of Grace Children’s Hospital’s many outpatient clinics. People living in the slums around the hospital receive vaccinations, prenatal care, and other basic health services from specially-trained community health workers and volunteers.

Inpatient Ward

The staff members at Grace Children’s Hospital care for around 300 children a year on the hospital’s inpatient ward, which occupies most of the second floor of the building. During their stay, which averages three months, Grace Children’s Hospital provides a place of healing and solace to these suffering children.

The children receive excellent medical care from professional doctors and nurses, nutritious meals to help them grow healthy and strong, and comfort from the dedicated and loving mamans (nurses’ aides). Once a child is on the road to recovery, he or she can also attend school at the hospital. For some, this is the first and only time they will ever experience a formal education.
Outpatient Clinic

In Haiti, affordable health services for both children and adults are hard to come by. In response to this, International Child Care has offered outpatient clinics at Grace Children’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince since the mid-1970s. The clinics provide diagnosis and treatment for diseases like TB and HIV, as well as offering preventative health care like eye exams and vaccinations.

The hospital pharmacy fills prescriptions on-site so patients can go home that day with the necessary medicines.

Outpatient services include:

* Pediatric and Adult TB Treatment
* HIV/AIDS Counseling and Treatment Services
* General Pediatric Clinic
* State-of-the-Art Eye Clinic
* Reproductive Health Services
* Nutrition Clinic

As with all of Grace Children’s Hospital’s programs, fees for outpatient services are determined by a sliding scale based on the patient’s income. No one is ever turned away because they are unable to pay.
Urban Community Health

Urban Community Health is an outreach program of Grace Children’s Hospital that brings primary health care and education to residents of Port-au-Prince right in their own neighborhoods.

Programs of Urban Community Health include:

* Immunization and Vitamin A Distribution
* Reproductive Health Services
* Traditional Birth Attendant Training
* Literacy Training
* Oral Rehydration Therapy and Clean Water Initiatives
* Health Education

Working alongside the people in the community, International Child Care has achieved impressive results by linking community-based health promotion and illness prevention with hospital and clinic-based care.





This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Permanent

Notes:

12/17/10 CHHN Update
Cholera supplies given by CHHN (5 boxes of LR and other cholera supplies)
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12/14/10 CHHN Update
First date of cholera 11/10/10
117 pts total
10 stay overnight
4 deaths
MSF delivered supplies last on Dec. 11
Needs supplies for CTU
STAFF: 1 doc, 1 nurse, 1 lab tech, 1 aux nurse
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11/22/10 UPDATE FROM THE SITE:

According to the Associated Press on Monday November 22, Haiti’s Ministry of Health announced that more than 1,100 people have died from Cholera. This death toll is more than 150 counts higher than reported by BBC World News and other sources last weekend.

Thankfully, International Child Care has reported no cases of Cholera amongst patients and staff. A Cholera Response Plan has been developed by ICC Haiti, and measures are in place to prevent outbreaks from occurring at GCH and in surrounding tent cities. ICC’s primary weapon in fighting the outbreak is through education of the public about how to prevent the transmission of the infection by using good hygiene practices like hand washing. In light of this epidemic, ICC is acquiring a stock of medicines, such as antibiotics like Doxycicline and oral re-hydration salts, and has developed a contingency plant to treat and monitor those who contract the infection. Two tents will be erected on the hospital grounds in the near future and will serve as treatment facilities.

As days go by hundreds of people in Haiti are contracting this often fatal intestinal disease that is caused by the ingestion of contaminated water or food and is transmitted by feces. What makes this situation even worst is the fact that the unsanitary living environments in many parts of Haiti are ideal conditions for the rapid transmission of this infection. The Associated Press reports that many people living in the Cap-Haitien area claim that the outbreak was brought to the island by UN peacekeepers. In October, just weeks after an outbreak in Nepal where Cholera is endemic, soldiers were deployed and stationed on the Artibonite River System which is the site of the infection’s first occurrence. The Centre for Disease Control has confirmed that the bacterial strain in Haiti matches a strain specific to South Asia. Moreover, as the infection continues to spread, suspicion about its origin continues to fuel fear and riots between UN soldiers and residents in Northern Haiti and in Port-au-Prince.

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