Summer 2025

Our outpatient clinic in Gatineau has been extremely busy since Cherlie and I (Dr. Wolf) returned to Haiti in mid-May after a trip to the US. We’re seeing up to 60 patients each day, many of them walking for hours to get to us or taking motorcycle taxis that charge far more for the ride than the patient pays for their consultation! About half of them have chronic, long-term medical problems like hypertension and diabetes and the others come for acute illnesses like fever and gastric reflux. Keeping our pharmacy supplied with the medications we need is a challenge, especially since we can no longer buy medication in Port-au-Prince and send it out here to Jérémie. Gangs are  controlling all the roads leading out of the capital and we don’t want to risk losing our precious meds to theft. So, we either buy them here in Jérémie, where the prices are higher, or we have volunteer partners in the US order them for us and send them down on Agape Flights, a mission flight service that flies from Florida to Jérémie. It means paying more but we get what we need to keep our patients healthy.

We have been seeing an increasing number of infants and young children with malnutrition, due to the poor economic conditions in the country of Haiti. We often use money from our Indigent Patient Fund to help the parents of these children pay for their medications and sometimes we even give them funds to buy food. Infants who are less than 6 months of age are unable to be enrolled in the government malnutrition program because they are too young to eat the peanut-butter-based food supplement that’s provided by the program.

If the infant is an orphan or the mother doesn’t have enough breast milk to feed them, we’ve been purchasing infant formula for them. Pictured is a two-month old infant whose mother isn’t producing enough breast milk for him. We’ve saved the little boy’s life by providing formula for him.