April Clinic Review

Total consultations = 3058 New patients = 631 Return patients = 2427 <1 yr = 346 1-4 yrs = 485 5-14 yrs = 340 Pregnant women = 262 Birth control = 47 Other adults = 1578 Emergencies/Accidents = 28 At home = 13 While working = 4 In the road

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Lucienne

Lucienne is 14 years old and lives with her parents deep in the mountains of Haiti.  It takes them about 3 hours to walk out to the main town where there is a paved road.  She is the youngest child in her family.  Her parents had 12 children and 5

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Pictures from the ICU

Job continues to recover.  All his edema from his kwashiorkor is gone.  Time to drink lots of formula and get little Job gaining some weight! A new child admitted today.  His legs and feet are very swollen due to edema from his kwashiorkor. Delens is healing and recovering.  He is

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March Clinic Review

Total consults = 2829 Working days = 17 Average per day = 166 Children weighed and assessed for malnutrition = 755 Percentage of children underweight = 48% (361 kids) Percentage of severe malnutrition (-2,-3, -4 SD) = 20% (153 kids) Patients with kwashiorkor = 88 Sacks of Medika Mamba distributed

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2000 lives touched with medika mamba in 6 years!

In 2009 we began using Medika Mamba.  This was our first shipment of boxes of the life saving product. We began with 10 children as a test run to see how well the product worked.  The results were wonderful and the kids were healing from malnutrition and serious cases of

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