Community Health Council

About Community Health Council

HEALTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT Community Health Council works in settings of poverty with the goal of primary care health for all. CHC’s Community Health Clinics are places people can go for primary care, even in regions of extreme poverty. At our founding in 2012, the Community Health Council had one goal … to provide basic healthcare to those who did not have regular access to it. We began by holding mobile clinics, working with partner organizations, local medical professionals and volunteers from the United States. Focusing on those who could not make the trip to the doctor or for whom it was extraordinarily difficult, like those in Belen, Peru, we brought the clinic to them. In 2014, we expanded our mobile clinics into the mountains of Haiti. Hours outside of Port-au-Prince, we met the wonderful people of Oranger, Zorange and Fayette, Haiti, who forever changed the course of CHC. After working with local Haitian physicians, we learned that as many as fifty-percent of the doctors in Haiti are unemployed. This was the impetus for the next phase of CHC. Our future is “Health through Empowerment“. Our mission is to “work to empower local doctors to start clinics in settings of extreme poverty.” We are working with local doctors and nurses to open clinics in the areas with the most dire need. Visit our site at CommunityHealthCouncil.org to learn more. Since our founding in 2012, CHC has treated over 35,000 patients, performed 24 surgeries, given 5 patients HIV antiretroviral therapy for life and operated in 2 countries (Haiti and Peru).

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