I visited St-Anthony's Clinic. The clinic is running well, they see about 100 patients per month. The clinic has one doctor, one nurse and a pharmacist. The clinic is open 5 days a week, however the doctor only comes on Mondays.
At this moment the clinic has a lack of medication in their pharmacy, when they don't have the medication the doctor or the nurse writes the patients a prescription to take to another pharmacy but some people can't afford to buy them. The pharmacy is supported by AmeriCares through the network.
The cholera rate was high at St-Anthony's clinic, but since the opening of the ORP in Fort-St Michel early december, the admission rate to the clinic has gone down. To prevent the cholera the doctor of the clinic (doctor Eugene) distributed some Aquatabs,chlorox and soaps to the local community who were very happy to receive them because otherwise their water is not clean. Food for the poor inc had drill one water well and have more then 5 water faucets in the village for the people but the water is not purified.
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