By Maya Brownstein | Community Giving
Thank you for continuing to support Partners In Health/Zanmi Lasante!
Our work to provide high quality medical care in Haiti has never flagged -- not since we started our first clinic there 30 years ago, and not since the devastating earthquake in 2010.
One of the most pernicious public health problems that Haiti faces is malnutrition -- which PIH, thanks to your generosity, has the tools to treat. Please read on for an excerpt from a report and reflection from a PIH staff member who visited a malnutrition clinic in Boucan Carre, Haiti (pictured above). You can also find a link to the full story below.
Roughly 1 in 5 children are starving in Haiti, and twice as many are stunted. Not all of them receive the care they need, but some do make it to PIH clinics and get enrolled in a malnutrition program. In Boucan Carré, an average of 127 patients visited the clinic every month and nearly 700 patients enrolled last year alone. That was just a fraction of the 9,000 children suffering from malnutrition whom PIH helped at its clinics and hospitals across the country in 2016.
Most children graduate from the malnutrition program after completing three months of appointments and Nourimanba supplements. They gain weight and grow inches taller. They begin reaching major development milestones, such as sitting, crawling, walking, and talking. In other words, they begin to do what children their age are supposed to do.
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