Month: May 2021

We are proud of how we have been able to take our place with a national team that has brought Covid-19 under remarkable control in Haiti, allowing us to grow the reach of our services. From the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March, we have partnered with the Haitian Global Health Alliance (GHESKIO) centers and the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) in the development of an intensive, 2-day training program on the prevention and management of Covid-19.

To date, 862 individuals have participated in these trainings. Participants include nurses, physicians, social workers, field workers, support personnel, psychologists, teachers, sex workers, and others. These activities have helped us:

• Promote public health by teaching effective practices to prevent disease transmission through a focus on hygiene
• Further our core mission of strengthening the capacity of nurses to act as transformational healthcare leaders
• Expand our network of nurses and other healthcare partners,

Our work during the pandemic was highlighted in an article published in the New Humanitarian in June; the article was also featured on the website of the Ashoka Foundation.

GHESKIO’s new healthcare, hygiene and life skills program for Vulnerable Women. This program is primarily for sex workers, who remain a major source of transmission of Covid, HIV and tuberculosis. Based on the success of the Covid Commission/NECH-CIEH hygiene training, this new program is presently in its early stages, with NECH-CIEH taking a major role in designing and delivering the training. Since NECH-CIEH is being brought in as a professional consultant, we are in the process of establishing a fee schedule for delivering these services. As a not-for -profit organization, all fees received will be returned to NECH-CIEH and used to fund our programs.

NECH-CIEH Nursing Survey.  We are surveying nursing job/career satisfaction, as well as perceptions and power relations of and within the nursing profession among nurses, doctors, hospital and clinic administrators throughout Haiti. This survey will provide the groundwork for our goal of making nurses in Haiti the agents of change by transforming the perceptions as well as the roles of nurses.