Working in rural Haiti

This is my first blog post. I am Briana Zachary, I am married to Casey Zachary. I am an internal medicine physician and started working at Real Hope for Haiti this January. It has been a bit of a transition for me to move from practicing medicine in the United

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A few of the kids from the ICU today…

  It is such a joy to see Lydiana smiling.  She has made great progress in the past few months. Maus is weak and sick still from his severe malnutrition.  We are hopeful that we will see a smile soon from him. Loubens mom went to two hospitals to find

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Cholera update – January to June 2016

Cholera came to Cazale in November 2010 and since that time we have cared for 11331 pts.  There have been 28359 hospitalized nights that makes the average hospital stay 2.5 nights per pt. From Jan-Jun 2016, there have been 1048 pts that have sought dehydration treatment at the cholera center.  There

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Clinic Review – June 2016

birth to 1 yr = 356 1-4 yrs = 572 5-14 yrs = 383 15-24 yrs = 309 family planning = 55 pregnant women = 309 other adults = 1102 TOTAL = 3086 emergencies = 43 sutures = 28 burns = 4 1st trimester = 29 2nd trimester = 138

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Urgent need for patient in the ICU

THANK YOU THIS NEED HAS BEEN MET!!! Neima was admitted this month for severe malnutrition to our inpatient care facility.  Shortly after arrival, he developed a life threatening condition in his hand and arm.  The condition was so serious that amputation was needed.  We made arrangements to send him into

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Foster Care sponsors needed

We are so excited that our foster program has been working well the past few years.  We have seen huge changes in the children’s lives as they have transitioned into living in a family setting.  We have seen children that were not walking yet, now walking.  We have seen children

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