About us

The Mizak Health Clinic was opened over a year ago by an organization called Haitian Artisans for Peace International. A group of "grassroot nurses" from Marcus, Iowa were the first team to start the clinic and it was a success. Since the clinic has opened, healthcare workers from the US have empowered the Mizak community through training Haitian healtcare workers. Now they have a hypertesion clinic and a program for malnurished children. Our dream is to help the Haitian's create a better Haiti with a sustainable clinic operated by the healthcare workers of Mizak. We are hoping to have a nursing school in the mountains someday.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Meet the Teams

Indiana Team is planning on arriving in Mizak Feb.19-28 as long as flights are not canceled.

The medications are ordered. Over 8,000 antibiotics as well as multiple other medications will be taken with them.

The team is planning on having the clinic open a majority of the week and spending a few days as a roving clinic in the poorest zones in Mizak.

Haitian Health care workers will be trained to....
1. treat fevers
2. treat lacerations and burns
3. treat parasites
4. test for malaria


IOWA TEAM...THE GROUP THAT STARTED IT ALL!
It was about March 2008 and Lee was ready to come back to Iowa from Mizak, Haiti for a short visit. In an e-mail he said they sure could use some volunteers in Mizak. I responded back to him and said I have always wanted to go on a medical mission trip. Lee was home by Easter and we had our first meeting in April to see how many if any interested volunteers. By October of that year we were headed to Mizak, Haiti with a team of 19. We had 6 nurses, one doctor and 12 support people coming from Indiana, Colorado, Ohio and Iowa. We held an out patient clinic Mon. through Fri. for two weeks. We were the first medical mission team ever to go into Mizak. We also had a dental clinic where we applied a fluoride varnish to the children's teeth. We again sent a team in July 2009 with some of the same team members returning. A new site was obtained for our clinic with it being a more workable site and we were able to have a bigger pharmacy area with the team bringing in more medicine then the year before and many more medical supplies. This year we involved the health care workers teaching them assessment skills and knowledge of medicines. The team will be going again this year July 19-24, 2010.
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  1. DebraAugust 3, 2010 at 9:27 AM

    Hello and good day!

    I am one of the ten people team, coming to see you and help build a community centre/school/worship pavilion on August 13 (ten days)! We are so happy to be coming to Mizak to help do whatever we can! I am a Child and Youth Worker/teacher and Mom, so I am anxious to help teach, tutor or work with children and women with crafts~! I am also First Aid CPR certified and would love to help in clinic also if needed!

    You can email me back at debrat13@brktel.on.ca if there is anything we can do or bring prior to our trip to Mizak next week! Blessings Debra Tuckey
    Ontario Canada

    Keep up the awesome work your doing! :)

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