[CCIH-Haiti] Improving healthcare in Haiti

[Eben Carsey]

I tend to agree with Paul Farmer.  I think that NGOs should get  
together to collaborate with and strengthen the Haitian health care  
system.  Instead of duplicating services and each doing our own thing,  
why don't we buy equipment and supplies and help to purchase  
medications for their clinics.  They should open up their clinics to a  
limited degree to qualified, certified health professionals from this  
country who want to work with them for short and long term periods.   
Part of this working together should include teaching--Haitian  
professional teaching outsiders about tropical medicine, particularly  
medicine in Haiti, and outsiders teaching the Haitian health  
professionals about how to be use the diagnostic equipment that we  
help to supply their clinics with, surgical techniques, neonatal care,  
judicious use of antibiotics, aspects of speciality medicine that are  
useful for general doctors, etc.

Eben Carsey, MD