HumaniTerra International (HTI) continues its operating, teaching and rebuilding surgical facilities missions on the ground by:

 Surgical actions:

Through its network of professional health volunteers, HTI intervenes directly in these countries by means of aid missions. These missions allow us to act on pathologies which are usually difficult to operate on. Based around 3 to 4 week-long missions involving 5 to 10 people (surgeons, anaesthetist, nurses, physiotherapist...), the mission goes to the populations that are unable to move around. Most surgical specialties are practiced depending on the needs (orthopaedic surgery, reconstructive surgery and severely burnt patients care, ophthalmology, dentistry, gynaecology, ENT, paediatric surgery…).

  Restoration actions and hospital development:
 

To complete full autonomy, the local health services need to have adequate hospital facilities. HumaniTerra builds or rebuilds, reorganizes and equips these care services. It collects and transports medicine and materials, it brings to the construction of new hospital facilities a certain expertise, it rehabilitates existing buildings and its equipment (operating bloc, reanimation and anaesthetics, radiology) with tools that are adapted to the local environment. Finally on the basis of a long lasting commitment, HTI sets up new service and building projects with the help of already established hospital department chiefs. 

Teaching and training of health professionals: 

HumaniTerra’s vocation is to promote local human resources and make the healthcare structures autonomous. One of the key elements of our actions is therefore training the local care personnel. Our medical staff is committed to sharing its knowledge through surgical mentoring and conferences. Furthermore HumaniTerra organizes and finances each year high-level training courses for foreign doctors in French hospitals and universities

 Some examples of the action carried out over the last few years:     

In Afghanistan, a burn-centre for young Afghan women in Herat.  

HumaniTerra started work, in Afghanistan, 8 years ago, to address the ph eno mena of young girls committing suicide by fire in the region of Herat. After many surgical operation missions, the NGO coordinated in 2007 the construction of the Pilot Burn Centre, which treats 1 500 p atients each year.

To continue the surgical facilities’ restructuring process in Herat, HumaniTerra comple tely financed the province’s hospital operating blocs’ rehabilitation (8 blocs) in 2010: rebuilding, equipment, training and management.

12 January 2010: HumaniTerra undertakes work in Haiti.

The Republic of Haiti was devastated by a catastrophically large scale earthquake. Everything was destroyed! In the following days HumaniTerra reacts and decides to send urgent surgical missions for over 4 months. Bolstered by its expertise in the reconstruction of healthcare facilities, HumaniTerra opened recently the “National Nursing School”. It welcomes 300 students and will organize training courses for operating room nurses and nurse anaesthetists.

In early 2012, HumaniTerra will install mobile surgical units in the State’s University Hospital. This allowed it to regain surgical activity in optimum conditions. The NGO’s innovative concept provides operating theatres housed in refurbished containers that are modular and portable. The blocs are truly a symbol of our commitment.

By ship in Bangladesh and Cambodia, going towards the populations who can’t travel for treatment.

Each year, HumaniTerra’s teams travel on two hospital ships the winding rivers of Bangladesh, healing the people who live on the chars. In Cambodia, it is also by means of boat that the surgeons get to the isolated islands of Koh-Kong to detect cataracts, deformities  and any other disabling pathology; which they later heal in the province’s hospital.

In the near future, HumaniTerra will further strengthen its commitment towards the Cambodian people with the implementation of a National Burn Centre which should be built in Phnom Penh.