March 2023:

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We want to thank you for your continued support for the people of Haiti, especially during this Cholera outbreak. 

Thanks to you we have been able to provide antibiotics, IV fluids and oral rehydration salts to prevent deaths that otherwise would occur. A patient sickened with cholera can lose several liters of diarrheal stools every hour. The fluid needs to be replaced rapidly otherwise the patient becomes hypotensive and will go into shock with associated cardiac arrest.

 

Dr. Moncher, the clinic administrator, and Father Snell Nord ,Pastor of St Jules, have made several trips to Cap Haitien to purchase medical supplies for use at the clinic as seen in the picture below.

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In addition to the medical supplies mentioned above your support has provided for an isolation cholera tent with concrete pad to treat the patients. For  the next three months we will be hiring additional nursing personnel, a second  part-time doctor, and additional housekeeping personnel to treat the patients with cholera in the isolation tent.. Ideally patients with cholera need to be isolated from other patients and the community while undergoing treatment. In one week we will be sending ,from the USA, personal protective equipment, gloves, and masks to help those caring for the sick with cholera.Unfortunately, because of the ongoing political instability in the country, the Haitian government has not been able to mount a response to this public health emergency.Local hospitals are requesting that patients not be transferred, but rather treated “in place”to prevent spread of the infection.

 

In the New Testament Matthew 25 it is written " Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.” You the supporters and friends of St Jules have rapidly responded to this crisis and our Lord will honor your generosity. Thank you so much!!

 

Below are pictures of the St.Jule's clinic staff caring for cholera patients, medical supplies, and a young girl who has been healed from Cholera

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