NOVA Hope for Haiti - Bringing Urgent Humanitarian Aid to the People of Haiti

The medical needs of Cavaillion and the greater southwest region of Haiti far exceed the currently scheduled biannual medical clinics. Thus NOVA is creating a permanent on-the-ground facility with staff, and will supplement this limited staff with current biannual medical volunteers. Additionally, NOVA will seek new service-oriented groups, drawn from churches, hospitals, synagogues and others who want to make a positive difference in this world, but by themselves do not have the expertise or resources to accomplish this.

NOVA is creating a rural healthcare network that will be defined by its trained itinerant primary care health workers (Agents Santé). Candidates for tthese positionswill be identified by rural town council members and chosen through an interview process. Successful candidates will be salaried and receive formal education leading to diploma as a certified Agent Santé. They will then work with NOVA and serve as the first line of medical care to the communities from which they emanated. NOVA is working through the office of the Minister of Health in Haiti to coordinate expansion of its programs and the ever-increasing number of rural and isolated communities that it reaches.

Once basic primary medical care has been established, the medical scope will expand to include obstetrical services, a dedicated operating room and dental clinic that will allow international surgical specialty teams to offer procedures currently unavailable to the communities around Cavaillion, and often even in Haiti itself.

NOVA feels strongly that the establishment of preventative medical programs is even more important than curative ones, and will concentrate on health education, family planning, vaccination programs and basic medical education. Acceptance and transfer of this information within communities is critical to accomplish change in unwanted habits and the improvement in patient and population outcomes. Our healthcare agents (Agents Santé), actually chosen for training in collaboration with the isolated communities they will serve, will subsequently be working within their very own villages and help to positively influence the acceptance of new ideas and preventive measures.


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	The medical needs of Cavaillion and the greater southwest region of Haiti far exceed the currently scheduled biannual medical clinics. Thus NOVA is creating a permanent on-the-ground facility with staff, and will supplement this limited staff with current biannual medical volunteers. Additionally, NOVA will seek new service-oriented groups, drawn from churches, hospitals, synagogues and others who want to make a positive difference in this world, but by themselves do not have the expertise or resources to accomplish this. NOVA is creating a rural healthcare network that will be defined by its trained itinerant primary care health workers (Agents Santé). Candidates for tthese positionswill be identified by rural town council members and chosen through an interview process. Successful candidates will be salaried and receive formal education leading to diploma as a certified Agent Santé. They will then work with NOVA and serve as the first line of medical care to the communities from which they emanated. NOVA is working through the office of the Minister of Health in Haiti to coordinate expansion of its programs and the ever-increasing number of rural and isolated communities that it reaches. Once basic primary medical care has been established, the medical scope will expand to include obstetrical services, a dedicated operating room and dental clinic that will allow international surgical specialty teams to offer procedures currently unavailable to the communities around Cavaillion, and often even in Haiti itself. NOVA feels strongly that the establishment of preventative medical programs is even more important than curative ones, and will concentrate on health education, family planning, vaccination programs and basic medical education. Acceptance and transfer of this information within communities is critical to accomplish change in unwanted habits and the improvement in patient and population outcomes. Our healthcare agents (Agents Santé), actually chosen for training in collaboration with the isolated communities they will serve, will subsequently be working within their very own villages and help to positively influence the acceptance of new ideas and preventive measures.