Past Achievements - sustainability
haiti
We have participated in 17 medical missions including: Haiti, after the earthquake and cholera epidemic; the Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador; the Dominican Republic; Alaskan villages along the Bering Sea; Israel; Costa Rica; Peru, and now Kenya.
The purpose of our Haiti mission was to build a prototype primary healthcare clinic (PHC) with telemedicine technology seven hours south of Port-au-Prince after the earthquake, cholera and TB outbreak. Thousands of indigenous men women and children, suffering and dying from disease and hunger were isolated from any access to health care. Our clinic, in the City of Duchity is sustainable treating over 70,000 patients to date (2023).
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Our goal has always been sustainability, with developing PHC’s using telemedicine technology in vulnerable, isolated, and underserved populations. We quickly learned the sound of a child crying in Kibera is the same sound as a child crying at home.
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DIHRA ACHIEVEMENTS
DIHRA, with the support of a sustainability grant from the University of Michigan, built a prototype healthcare clinic using telemedicine technology in Haiti during the Cholera epidemic that followed the massive earthquake that struck the nation in 2010. Expanding services to the time periods between visits by DIHRA staff, we trained local staff members and outfitted the clinic with telemedicine technology, enabling the staff to collaborate with specialists and other members of the DIHRA medical advisory board. The clinic has served 70,000 patients in the seven years since its completion, demonstrating the sustainability of their strategy.
DIHRA built a second healthcare clinic to serve the severely impoverished population of Kibera, Kenya. Thousands of school children including 150,000 orphans, in Kibera have access to health care from the services of this clinic.
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Dr. Rosenthal has arranged for the largest medical training institution in Kenya, The Kenya Medical Training College, to partner with New York Medical College, to share its academic resources with elective rotations between the two colleges.