Showing posts with label Healthcare in Haiti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthcare in Haiti. Show all posts

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Healthcare in Haiti

This week, we met Israel in our Haitian clinic.  Israel is 9 years old and came in with septic arthritis of his hip.  This condition requires surgery so we took him to 3 hospitals all of which turned him away.  We had a board certified orthopedic surgeon with us but no anesthesia or a hospital to work in.  Now Israel is destined to have a frozen hip which will make walking and working very painful for the rest of his life.  This operation would have taken 15 minutes and cost less than $100.  How can we impact the Health Care system to avoid another Israel?