Eben Ezer Hospital

Posted on HEAS 11/10/10
Also had another report from Clinic Ebenezer who said they were overrun with (cholera) patients and on their last box of saline. Staff have been overwhelmed and they are looking for nurses.
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Eben-Ezer Hospital opened its doors to the people of Haïti in 1983. Since then, it has become the hub of a network of about 500 hospitals and health centers throughout the nine Departments (or states) of Haïti.

The group distributes medicine and medical supplies in four ways:

During the last six years, an educational/training program was funded and launched by the United States Agency for International Development (U.S. A.I.D.) under a program known as ED 2004. This program enabled Eben-Ezer to provide health care training in 89 schools in only three of the nine Departments (Artibonite, North, and Northeast). Still, 540 teachers were able to train 24,000 students. Under Eben-Ezer's guidance, the program has developed into a multi-faceted project that has become a vital part of the communities in and near the three Departments where it was launched.
Eben-Ezer has structured a multi-level training project in which women from all nine Departments will be trained to combat sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), by educating the populace on prevention and the importance of early treatment. This project begins with 50 women (ten from Artibonite and five from each of the other eight Departments). Each of these women trains eight other women. Then, 400 women each trains ten others in a series of ten sessions over an 18-month period. In all, 44,000 women will be trained under this project, working under only one coordinator and three trainers. The women are parents of students in Eben-Ezer and other schools and from the churches across Haïti that are affiliated with the Eben-Ezer network.
Eben-Ezer has structured a second training project in which Haïtian young people are organized in a nationwide effort to prevent the spread of STDs through education. Thirty youths attend a ten-day training seminar to become teachers. After a series of three seminars is completed, 90 young men and women will have been trained to be teachers of this program. Each of the 90 teaches 50 students per month in a series of nine monthly training sessions, for a total of 40,500 individuals educated on the prevention, early detection, and treatments of STDs.
Eben-Ezer Hospital is a member of the Association of Hospitals and Health Centers, formed through an initiative of the Gonaïves Regional Office of the Ministry of Public Health. Beginning in 20 communities in upper Artibonite and growing to serve up to 200,000 persons, this outreach program educates young people and adults on the prevention, early detection, and treatment of STDs.
In all, this four-component network is able to educate and distribute medicine and medical supplies to more than 300,000 persons.

The tragedy is that no medication of any kind has been provided for the treatment of HIV or AIDS. Medicines and medical supplies include only small quantities of antibiotics, first aid supplies and headache and fever medications. The provision of medicine and medical supplies is inadequate and inconsistent.

Eben-Ezer Hospital badly needs assistance from individuals and organizations that have access to the medicine and medical supplies that could be so easily distributed to those among the 300,000 persons who need them.

Fix hospital
• Fix roof
• Fence around hospital
• Painting (green and white)
• Fix surgery room for surgeon Dr Morpeau
• Call room for Doctor

Staff
• Gynaecology Dr
• Mid wife (“fanm saj”)
• Security
• Cleaning 1-12 hours per day

Material
• For Laboratory : Chemistry system
• For Administration : Computer, printer, scanner
• More beds – 20
• 4 toilets – fix – have
• Better seats
• Fans in all rooms
• TV in waiting room
• 2 Air conditioning ? more to buy
• Fix X-Ray machine + developer
• Ambulance
• Truck –emergicare
• Pediatric blood pressure cuff
• XL size blood pressure cuff

Supplies on going
• Medicines for all
• Food for each patient & in-patient
• Treats for children
• Give water to drink to all patients – water cooler w/ good potable water
• Garden treats

Funding to support Salaries 10% raise

School health program:
• 12 nurses for student health care (one nurse for 8 schools)
• Each school has an average of 150 students
• We need to allocate a monthly allowance for supplies and basic medicines