Cuties from the Rescue Center

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one If

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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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