The MCFDF Deploys a Mobile Clinic to Mark Women's Health Week

PORT-AU-PRINCE.— To mark Women's Health Week, a mobile clinic is organized for displaced women and their children. This initiative aims to make health services more accessible during this period to vulnerable women, especially those living in internally displaced persons' sites.

A joint initiative of the Ministry for the Status of Women and Women's Rights (MCFDF), the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), and the Office of Work Accident, Sickness, and Maternity Insurance (OFATMA).

Deployed on Monday, June 2, in Delmas 83, this clinic offers many women of different age groups the opportunity to receive a medical consultation and free medication, depending on their case, the MCFDF Communication office wrote.

On the day's agenda: general consultations, prenatal care for pregnant women, pediatric consultations for babies, care for schoolchildren, and the free distribution of medication according to the needs identified by the medical staff.

Officials also distributed hygiene kits to women with young children. Materials were also offered to pregnant women, such as baby bathtubs containing a backpack to carry baby items, as well as a plate adapted for child feeding, the ministry's communication team reported.

“These simple but essential gestures demonstrate a humanitarian approach attentive to the realities experienced by displaced women,” read a statement.

The week is held under the theme: “Healthy women for a safer tomorrow,” the MCFDF announced, highlighting the government's commitment to placing women's health and dignity at the heart of its interventions.

Jean Mapou