A mother brought her daughter to our clinic with what had started as a blister on her leg but had evolved into an alarming infected wound. We cleaned it, dressed it carefully, and gave her the antibiotics she needed. Over the next week, I watched that wound heal with each dressing change. The girl might have a small scar, but she’s walking again, playing again, healthy again.
That’s the medical care I signed up to practice—diagnose, treat, heal, send patients home better than they came.
But here’s what keeps me awake at night: that antibiotic isn’t always on our shelves anymore.
The Crisis We’re Facing
I’m a doctor at Real Hope for Haiti clinic in rural Cazale, serving some of the poorest and most vulnerable patients in our country. We provide care at low cost, and medications for free, because we know our patients simply cannot afford them otherwise.
But Haiti is in crisis. Gang insecurity makes travel dangerous and supply chains unreliable. Costs are skyrocketing. And medications, the very tools I need to save lives, are becoming harder to find.
Even when medications exist somewhere in Haiti, our patients rarely have the money to purchase them. So they go without or treat with herbal remedies. I often see treatable conditions spiral into emergencies.
Let me tell you what “going without” really means:
A pregnant mother couldn’t get antibiotics. Her baby was born with an eye infection—completely preventable if she would had the medication when she needed it.
A family couldn’t access anti-scabies treatment. One case spread to every family member because they couldn’t get the medications in time.
A patient with asthma can’t get her steroid inhaler. Instead of living a life where her condition is controlled, she’s having preventable attacks.
These aren’t just statistics. These are our patients. These are preventable tragedies.
When We Have What We Need
Marie-Carmelle walked five hours to reach us after a traumatic gang encounter left her losing weight and desperately ill. Our team diagnosed high blood pressure and diabetes—both serious, but both manageable with the right medications.
Today, Marie-Carmelle’s health is improving. She has hope again. She wants you to know: “Thank you for your participation in allowing us to purchase these medications. These medicines are very expensive in Haiti. If I had to buy them, I would need a lot of money. Fortunately, I don’t have to buy them.”
Little Samentha was only 11 months old when her parents brought her in with sores covering her body and an abscess on her shoulder. We had what she needed—ceftriaxone to fight the infection, careful wound care, proper dressing changes. Ten days later, every sore had healed. Her parents wept with relief.
These are the outcomes we want to create for every single patient who walks through our doors.
The Creative Solutions Aren’t Enough
Our team has become incredibly resourceful. We strategize, prioritize, and use every medication in the most effective way possible, stretching our supplies as far as they’ll go.
But we can’t create medicine out of thin air.
When our supplies run out, we can still write prescriptions—but my patients leave with papers they can’t fill. The medications either don’t exist in local pharmacies, or they cost more than a family earns.
We’re treating chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes, asthma, seizure disorders, and prostate issues. We’re managing acute infections, anemia, pain, vitamin deficiencies, and everyday illnesses that turn serious without treatment. Each person who comes to us deserves care. Each person deserves the medicine that will help them heal.
We need your help to make that possible.
Become an Anchor of Hope
We’re asking you to become what we call an “Anchor of Hope” – a monthly donor who provides the steady, reliable support that keeps our pharmacy stocked and our patients healthy.
Here’s what your monthly commitment could provide:
– $10/month supplies iron supplements to treat anemia
– $25/month manages hypertension for 2 patients
– $50/month provides life-saving insulin for diabetes care
– $100/month treats 8 people suffering from infections
Every dollar you give becomes healing. It becomes a mother who doesn’t lose her child to a preventable infection. It becomes a farmer who can control his blood pressure and continue providing for his family. It becomes an baby whose skin heals and whose future remains bright.
Will You Help Us Keep Healing?
I think about how quickly that leg wound could have turned catastrophic without antibiotics. I think about Marie-Carmelle’s improving health, Samentha’s healed skin, and every patient we’ve been able to help because the medication was there when we needed it.
Now we’re asking you to ensure that medicine is there for the next frightened parent, the next suffering patient, the next life hanging in the balance.
Our medications budget is $5,000 each month to keep our pharmacy stocked with essentials. In a community facing gang violence, economic collapse, and healthcare scarcity, Real Hope for Haiti stands as a light of hope and compassion, but only if we have the resources to provide the care our patients need.
Will you become an Anchor of Hope today?
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Your monthly gift will directly save lives and bring health. It will transform fear into healing. It will give hope to those who have nowhere else to turn.
Thank you for considering this need. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for being part of the miracle of healing that happens every day in Cazale.
P.S. If monthly giving isn’t possible right now, a one-time donation of any amount helps us restock critical medications. And if you can’t give financially, please share this post with others who might be moved to help.