Mayo's help in Haiti goes deeper
The Mayo Clinic had never set up organized disaster relief on foreign soil, but after a year of reconnaissance, planning and waiting for the civil unrest surrounding elections to subside, Mayo began a mission to Haiti.
From February to June, Mayo sent eight teams of doctors, nurses, paramedics and pharmacists to provide patient care and medical supplies. Now they are beginning Phase Two.
All along, the relief teams and planning committees knew two things: They wanted to return to Haiti, and they wanted to bring sustainable, autonomous health practices to the hospitals there.
To that end, Mayo doctors have started a series of weekly conference calls with Haitian physicians
on Skype. It’s the type of collaboration that happens frequently within Mayo, between doctors who want to exchange best practices and advice.
During the calls, Haitian doctors present difficult patient case studies to the Mayo doctors to discuss possible diagnoses and treatment.
Mayo employees will return to Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince, on July 11 to provide a “continual
supportive role” of sequential teams, said Dr. John Wilson. Wilson directs the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine’s Program of Underserved Global Health, which will fund Phase Two.
The new phase will include more paramedics and pain control experts.
“We’d like for this to be a very long-term program,” Wilson said, “hopefully years.”
Michelle Holm, pharmacist
Since just one of every three Mayo staff members who applied to go were accepted, most volunteers only went to Haiti once. Michelle Holm was one of several pharmacists asked to return to help implement a computer system that tracks medical supplies on-site. The program runs in English and Haitian Creole.
Developing the pharmacy inventory system was a group effort involving pharmacists from several of Mayo’s Haiti teams over a span of weeks, said Mayo spokeswoman Sharon
Theimer. It continues as other pharmacists add drugs to the database from their computers in Minnesota.
All the visitors used their paid time off or vacation days from Mayo to go to Haiti, but Holm also spent many nights and weekends working on the specifications of the computer program. With the help of her husband, who works for Mayo Information
Technology, Holm secured it for a fraction of its actual cost.
The couple then flew to Haiti to train the Haitian doctors and nurses to use the program. Some of them had never used the Internet and struggled to move the mouse and double click, she said.
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