TuDiabetes Live Interview with Dr. Nancy Larco, caring for PWD in Haiti

Dr. Nancy Larco is Project Coordinator for an organization called FHADIMAC (Haitian Foundation for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease). FHADIMAC is private Haitian Foundation with over 6000 members. FHADIMAC is the only association working in Haiti towards playing an essential role in the daily lives of thousands of diabetics and hypertension sufferers and the lives of their parents by providing advice to allow them to “Live better with Diabetes and High Blood Pressure”.

In May 1987, the Association Haïtienne de Diabète (ADH) was created with the assistance of the Port-au-Prince Lions Club Central. The popular clinics were receiving an increasing amount of patients, numbering to over one hundred per session.

In 1989, ADH opened its headquarters at 208 Lalue, The Saint-François de Sales and Cité Soleil clinics were transferred to that location, and ADH was then able to provide other services, such as daily educative workshops and the sale of medication at a reduced price for members of the association.

Because of the high occurrence of hypertension among diabetics, ADH became FHADIMAC, Fondation Haïtienne de Diabète et de Maladies Cardio-Vasculaires, or Haitian Foundation of Diabetes and Cardio-Vascular Diseases, in 1993.

Since then, every day FHADIMAC welcomes patients who purchase medication at reduced prices, and young needy diabetics receive insulin at no charge, through a system of sponsorship. FHADIMAC also offers two weekly clinics for poverty-stricken patients, and provides daily educational workshops.

FHADIMAC is private Haitian Foundation with over 6000 members. FHADIMAC is the only association working in Haiti towards playing an essential role in the daily lives of thousands of diabetics and hypertension sufferers and the lives of their parents by providing advice to allow them to “Live better with Diabetes and High Blood Pressure.

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