Port Salud RCZ

Grs Haiti RS

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Port Salud RCZ

Dr. Michael D. McDonald

Coordinator
Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance

Chairman
Global Resilience Systems, Inc.

President
Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.

Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com
202-468-7899

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> From: Thomas Ebenreiter <ebo4@me.com>
> Date: October 18, 2016 at 7:28:43 PM EDT
> To: michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@me.com>
> Subject: Re: [HEAS] Cholera Forecasting
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> We've forwarded your message to the principals of No Time For Poverty.
>
> I heard Michelle Boston speak on Saturday. She stated that there are no aid groups in the department around Port Salut yet. The NTFP clinic, amazingly, is up and running as of the Monday before last. The staff there is incredible. Some Swiss guys showed up and are helping rebuild the water filtration system. However, Michelle is extremely concerned that malnutrition, starvation, and disease will accelerate rapidly if aid doesn't show up soon. The clinic plans to gear up to treat cholera patients.
>
> That's all I know at this point. It would be best for you to contact Michelle directly. mboston@notimeforpoverty.org
> (612) 309-6508.
>
> Thanks so much for your concern and best of everything to you!
>
>
> Tom & Sheryl Ebenreiter
> 612-817-1220
>
>
>
>> On Oct 18, 2016, at 3:39 PM, michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@me.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sheryl,
>>
>> Can you provide us with an update, especially regarding cholera management, but also other needs. We can put this information up in the Haiti Resilience System.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
>>
>> Coordinator
>> Haiti Health and Resilience Initiative
>>
>> Executive Director
>> Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> Cell: 202-468-7899
>> Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com
>>
>> http://haiti.resiliencesystem.org
>>
>>> On Oct 12, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Thomas Ebenreiter <ebo4@me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I serve on the board of NTFP.org.
>>> We have a pediatric clinic in the southern region of Haiti, Port Salut. Our clinic survived but most of the homes in our region were destroyed. Our Doctors have already seen some cases of cholera.
>>> Please access our website to see where we are and what we are doing, as this disaster unfolds.
>>>
>>> Sheryl Ebenreiter
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Oct 12, 2016, at 5:20 PM, Licia Betor <licia@realhopeforhaiti.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> First wanted to stay thank you for keeping all this info going. I live in Cazale and work with Real Hope for Haiti. We have been treating cholera patients since Nov 2010 (treated around 10,000) and our facility is still open. We are in the west department no where near the south. We have been helping with supplies from our center to send out through Americares.
>>>>
>>>> I was writing to let you know that MSPP does have a very strong presence with cholera in our department. They have given all those in our area treating cholera phones and we sent a report each night of the amount of patients we had that day. We also send in weekly reports to several people within MSPP. Whenever there is a increase in patients they will send a team out. These teams come to our facility and check out what is going on. They look at our ledgers and find out where the cases are coming from and then go to those villages. They do educations and spray houses down. When they have supplies they also help us out on a small scale. We also send in one stool sample per week to the national lab in Port for testing. We pick up these results about once a month for our records. So I just wanted to encourage you that they do have a strong presence and seem to be very active with cholera, at least in our area. Perhaps we could pass some of our contacts along and someone could get in contact with them to find out any info you might be needed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Again thank you!
>>>>
>>>> Licia Betor
>>>> Real Hope for Haiti
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 2016-10-12 08:38, Jim Wilson, MD wrote:
>>>>> Re: forecasting, we have a simple, easy to use cloud based system.
>>>>> The challenge here is to get the pdf'd cholera reports from MSPP
>>>>> uploaded, which I will have a large group of students do on my end.
>>>>> What we need moving forward is 1) coordination going forward so allow
>>>>> us to do a hand off, 2) that the individuals involved receive very
>>>>> simple training, and 3) somehow we convince MSPP to continue reporting
>>>>> cholera... I have no idea if they are even maintaining the data going
>>>>> forward.
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Licia Betor
>>>>
>>>> Real Hope for Haiti
>>>>
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