MSPP meeting part 1

There were more then 15 different ONGs that came to this health care meeting.

The Delegue of the North was there and he said that health care is very important because you need your health to do your daily activity. He said that the president Michel Martelly said he wants to built more hospitals in 2013. The delegue also talked about the cholera, how it started? what cause it? how can it be treat?

MSPP asked all of the ONGs to come up with a plan together to better health care for the next 10 years 2012-2022. For example what is the objective for helping Haiti? Method of your work, by communication with other in health care. They want to have this plan when the international organization comes to Haiti, they will have to fellow that plan.

Dr. Jasmin talked about Cap-Haitien not having a lot of drinkable water and sanitation.

The most sickness that Cap-Haitien has is Cholera, HIV, High blood pressure.

There are 138,000 children die from malnutrition, HIV, Fever and TB.

The rate of HIV in Cap-Haitien is 2.9 and in Port au Prince it is 2.2

Dr. Jasmin also talk about the shortness of doctors, for example there are 32 doctors, 7 dentist, 3 pharmacist, 196 assent nurses, 151 nurses, 7 mid-wives, and 33 laboratories. One doctor sees 13,694 peolpe and one nurse sees 144,763 people.

There are 77 clinics, 16 of them are public, 33 are private, 26 are mix, 4 hospital, 12 CAL, and 52 CSL.

They also talk about places that needed more staff like Fort-Saint Michele, Dispensair de Quartier-Morin, Hospital de Limbe, St-Rapheal hospital, Hospital de Grand riviere du nord and Plaine du nord.
The places that need health care the most is Gobert and Soufriere.

After Dr.Jasmin done talking he broke up the people into groups, like health care and governmental to talk about the problems and how it can be fix. The network was apart of the health care, we talk about the biggest problems which were equipments without it the doctors could not work. We talk about the education, how to educate the people about health care around the community and the medical person that is working at that clinic or hospital.

Tomorrow is an other meeting we will continue discussing the health care issues.