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USAID-funded health
teams treat 300 patients
per week in Asile Comunal
Providing Much-Needed Healthcare in Asile Comunal
Photo: Ron Libby, USAID
The January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti devastated hospitals,
clinics, and other health facilities across Port-au-Prince, leaving
thousands of residents without access to critical health services
when they needed them most. With funding from USAID, Project
Concern International (PCI) initiated a strategy to meet
the needs of local families directly, while strengthening capacity
of local NGOs and health providers to restore their
services.
In Asile Comunal, situated in Belair, one of the most
dangerous urban slums of Port-au-Prince, PCI and its
community partners removed rubble and established a
health clinic in partnership with the Centre D’Accueil et
de Récupération des Personnes du 3ème Age (CARPA),
a local Haitian NGO.
The clinic is staffed with a doctor, nurses, and
volunteers from local universities, as well as a mobile
health team. Serving an estimated 300 people per
week, of which 69 percent are women and 14 percent are children
under the age of five, the clinic provides services for a
large population of elderly people who were displaced when
the earthquake caused damage to their retirement home.
USAID funding for this health clinic in Belair is complemented
by PCI-implemented programs in gender-based violence prevention;
child protection; water, sanitation and hygiene; cashfor-
work; and emergency shelter.
With assistance from USAID and in coordination with the
Government of Haiti Ministry of Health, PCI has erected four
community health clinics and utilizes nine mobile health teams
to provide basic health services and outreach to community
members in Belair, Nazon and Avenue Poupelard, Croix Deprez,
and Fort National.
As of July 6, USAID had provided more than $54 million in
health assistance in response to the earthquake
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