In partnership with Delta Airlines and MedShare, over 350 pounds of primary care supplies were recently donated to two clinics in Haiti. MedShare is a non-profit located in Atlanta that collects medical supplies form local hospitals and donates them to hospitals and clinics in developing countries. Delta Airlines aids MedShare in their mission by helping to deliver medical supplies to the countries which MedShare identifies as being in need. MSN student Dominique Guillaume has partnered with MedShare for several solo projects in Haiti in the past, however in January she was approached by the Vice President of MedShare, Nell Diallo, and asked if she could coordinate and lead a global health trip for representatives from Delta who were interested in donating supplies to Haiti. This is the largest trip she has coordinated to date and recently she and four Delta representatives, along with ten suitcases and containers full of medical supplies embarked on a trip to Haiti.  

The first clinic Guillaume and the Delta crew visited, Mosanto Petit Centre de Communitaire, is located in Laboule which is a small city tucked away in the mountains surrounding Port-au-Prince. This clinic serves approximately 180,000 patients and they are the sole healthcare providers to one of the largest slums in Port-au-Prince known as Jalousie. Every service that is provided is free and every provider goes above and beyond to ensure that their patients receive the care that they need, even going to the patient’s homes if need be. They arrived on a Saturday, when the clinic is normally closed, however, they agreed to open the clinic that Saturday for their arrival. Upon their arrival, they had a meeting with the clinic directors and were given detailed information on how the clinic functions, how it is funded, along with the resources needed. Despite being low on funding and resources, healthcare providers in Laboule still manage to go out of their way to deliver care to hundreds of infants, children and pregnant women every single day.

The second clinic, Centre De Santé De Cayes-Jacmel, is located approximately three hours from Port-au-Prince, in the beach city of Jacmel. This clinic provides both primary and acute care services, free of charge, throughout the entire city. While there, they spoke with the medical directors to discuss their needs and what they can do to help in the future. The clinic was unique in the sense that it is primarily Cuban run. With Jacmel being such a remote city many Haitian professionals, especially physicians, prefer to practice in bigger cities such as Port-au-Prince. In a country where the health care infrastructure is so fragile, it becomes increasingly brittle in cities like Jacmel that significantly lack health care professionals. The Cuban staff have made it their mission to fill this gap, however it becomes extremely difficult when they lack medical supplies, medications, and basic equipment. After speaking with the medical directors, Guillaume and the Delta team participated in a press conference with the local news who interviewed us about our work and out mission.

​Guillaume says "the impact of this trip has been so momentous, and since our arrival back to the United States, the Delta team and I have been in discussion in regards to what we can do in the future to make this project more sustainable so that the impact is long-term. Both of the clinics are in need of volunteers and personnel so I am also reaching out to nurses and clinicians within my network to bring an even larger group of people for the next trip, with the hopes of being able to assist the local medical staff in the care and treatment of patients."