Our Mobile Medical Team Responds The first day Americares mobile clinic was providing care in southwest Haiti, Dr. Dominique Georges saw something unusual in the afternoon: patients were returning. “The first people to receive treatment went home and then returned a short time later with four or five family members,” says Dr. Georges, Americares Haiti program director. Americares dispatched the mobile clinic in response to flooding and earthquakes in southwest Haiti. “There’s an overwhelming need for care in communities cut off from access to care since the earthquake,” says Dr. Georges. The problem began with heavy rainfall and massive flooding, followed just days later by back-to-back earthquakes. “The destructive flooding and earthquake damage in western Haiti have cut off access to health services in many communities. There are pregnant women who cannot get to a hospital to deliver their babies and people in desperate need of medicine,” says Americares Director of International Emergency Response Cora Nally. “Our mobile medical team will be there to provide essential — potentially lifesaving — health care throughout the recovery.” Watch the latest update from Haiti Program Director Dr. Waly Turin by clicking on the arrow. Updated 10/3/23 Haiti Program Director Dr. Dominique Georges treats a patient in a rural community in Haiti in response to the recent earthquake and flood. (Photo/Pierre Michel Jean/Redux)