The Canadian Red Cross mobile clinic was the first humanitarian assistance to reach the community of Cap à Fou since Hurricane Matthew. Local Haitian Red Cross volunteers and the joint Canadian and French Red Cross team set up the mobile clinic.
Haitian Red Cross nurse conducting a blood test for malaria on patient Linna Eveis in Cap à Fou.
Canadian Red Cross Deputy Team Leader of the mobile clinic, Tamara Bournival and driver walk around the community of Cap à Fou to assess damage, water sources, food sources and access points by water for future interventions.
French Red Cross team member, Dr. Frédéric Birgel, conducts a neurological exam on 4-month-old Hergineala in Cap à Fou.
View of mobile clinic setup by the beach in Lahaie, Petite Riviere, Haiti, a community devastated by Hurricane Matthew.
Canadian Red Cross mobile clinic nurse Francis Duclos examines 20-day-old newborn Clevain under the watchful eye of her mother Jeanette Ladouceur.
A patient requiring emergency hospital treatment is going by boat. French Red Cross member, Dr. Frédéric Birgel (centre) and Canadian Red Cross Deputy Team Leader of the mobile clinic, Tamara Bournival (right) look on.
Haitian doctor, Antoine Mayos, hired by the Haitian Red Cross to accompany the Canadian Red Cross mobile clinic, examines 5-year old Tama Bienville, at Ecole Nationale Primary School, Gabriel, Anse-d'Hainault.
Canadian Red Cross mobile clinic doctor, Jamal Serrar, performs an abdominal palpation exam on a young boy in Gabriel, Anse-d’Hainault.
Canadian Red Cross mobile clinic nurse, Elizabeth Hinton and a Haitian Red Cross volunteer disseminate hygiene messages to members of the community in Gabriel, Anse-d’Hainault.
Photos by: Marko Kokic / Canadian Red Cross
The Canadian Red Cross team is continuing to visit villages and remote regions of Haiti affected by Hurricane Matthew to provide medical care through the mobile health clinic. Last week, the mobile clinic visited four communities including Cap à Fou which had been previously inaccessible to aid workers due to severely damaged roads.
The mobile clinic is a joint effort by the Canadian Red Cross and the French Red Cross, in collaboration with the Haitian Red Cross and the Ministry of Health in Haiti.
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