UN Flash Appeal - Health
Cluster partners
PAHO/WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF, UNFPA, IOM, Save the Children, World Vision, International Medical Corps (IMC), Merlin, Médecins du Monde (MDM), International Rescue Committee (IRC).
Sectoral Objectives
The overall objective of the intervention is to save lives and prevent further deterioration of public health conditions in the affected areas.
Strategy and proposed activities
Health Cluster partners will work with the national health authorities and health partners to ensure a coordinated response to the needs of the Haitian population. The proposed activities are the following:
- Coordination of the health sector response and needs assessment, monitoring & evaluation
- Coordination of international health assistance within the health cluster including international drug donations and reactivation of Haiti's central procurement agency for drugs and medical supplies (PROMESS)
- Promote the establishment of an emergency cell within the Ministry of Health
- Carry out rapid health assessments
- Conduct health assessments on needs, damage, impact and gaps in the assistance including monitoring and evaluation
- Outbreak control and environmental health
- Re-establish the capacity of prevention and control of communicable diseases through the establishment of an emergency communicable disease surveillance system (Early Warning Alert and Response Network) and re-establish the routine disease reporting system
- Ensure immunization including mass vaccination campaign against measles and prepare response to outbreaks
- Ensure vector borne and zoonotic disease control activities
- Safe water for health facilities and water quality control
- Ensure water quality control and sanitation, food safety and health care waste management
- Hygiene promotion and health education
- Restoration of basic health care services
- Ensure continuity of primary health care services, including reproductive health, treatment for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, emergency obstetric and neonatal care; and prevention and management of sexual violence
- Re-establish the health care information system
- Emergency basic repairs to health facilities/temporary health facilities
- Support the management of chronic diseases
- Support the treatment of injuries and emergency services including referral of patients with life threatening conditions: follow up of injured patients and early rehabilitation
- Support the provision of mental health and psycho-social support according to internationally agreed guidelines (Inter-agency Standing Committee)
- Treatment of acute malnutrition
- Ensure availability of essential drugs and medical supplies
- Provide surgical and trauma kits, essential medicines and health supplies based on assessments
- Ensure the proper functioning of the PAHO-managed Haiti central procurement agency for drugs and pharmaceutical supplies (PROMESS)
The project will be carried out in collaboration with the health authorities building on existing capacity and enhancing pre-existing mechanisms. The following indicators will be used to monitor progress of the project implementation.
- Proportion of functional hospitals and health care facilities
- Reporting rate on communicable diseases occurrence
- Disease occurrence, mortality and morbidity as indicators on public health conditions in the affected areas
- Coordination meetings and joint field monitoring with humanitarian partners
- Field assessment
- Absence of outbreaks of communicable disease
Expected Outcomes
- All the emergency kits distributed immediately and used in the affected areas;
- Risk of epidemics of communicable diseases in the affected areas controlled and reduced;
- Epidemics of communicable diseases immediately identified and reported and containment measures initiated promptly;
- Hospitals/health facilities in the affected areas have sufficient essential medicines and health supplies for basic PHC and supply & equipment for sustaining immunization services;
- Local psycho-social support provided
- Efficient collaboration for the implementation of the humanitarian action in health.