{"id":868,"date":"2014-08-08T09:31:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T13:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/globalhealth\/?p=868"},"modified":"2014-08-08T09:31:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T13:31:50","slug":"one-month-is-not-such-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/2014\/08\/08\/one-month-is-not-such-a-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"One Month Is Not Such a Long Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tara Kedia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In my last couple of weeks in Haiti, I\u2019ve been concluding my projects at l\u2019H\u00f4pital Immacul\u00e9e Conception (HIC), and have also had the chance to see a bit more of the country. (Read more about my work at HIC in my <a title=\"Tara Kedia\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.dartmouth.edu\/medexperience\/understanding-tb-diagnosis-in-haiti\/\">previous post<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Some of the departments at HIC do not have consistent access to soap and water or hand sanitizer, which are important infection-prevention measures. Last week, my supervisor, Cleonas Destine, an infectious disease doctor here at HIC, and I mixed up a batch of hand sanitizer, as per the <a title=\"World Health Organization\" href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/gpsc\/5may\/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">World Health Organization\u2019s Formulation<\/a>. We still need to find a pharmacy in Cayes that would be able to mix larger batches to continuously supply HIC with hand sanitizer.<\/p>\n<p>The projects on tuberculosis diagnosis have also progressed further along. We have gotten comments from all the TB staff and infectious disease doctors on a shorter and translated-to-Creole version of USAID\u2019s survey, \u201c<a title=\"Reducing Days in TB Diagnosis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urc.tbcare.net\/sites\/urc.tbcare.net\/files\/TB%20CARE%20II_Data%20collection%20tool_TB%20Patient%20Delay_April%202012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Reducing Delays in TB Diagnosis<\/a>.\u201d This week, we\u2019re meeting with the staff who could administer this survey to patients on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dartmouth.edu\/medexperience\/one-month-is-not-such-a-long-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of weeks, Tara Kedia (\u201917) has been finishing up her work in Haiti, and she has also had the chance to see more of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-haiti","author-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}