Emergency room doctor Tiffany Keenan is returning to Haiti to visit two health clinics.

Dr. Keenan, who has worked in Haiti for four years, stepped up her efforts after the devastating earthquake on January 12.

She has visited the country four times since then spending a total of 11 weeks in Haiti. During that time she has treated scores of patients and run the airport in the Southern city Jacmel before the Canadian military took over.

The 38-year-old, who lives in Paget, set up the Haiti Village Health charity several years ago and it already has a clinic in the northern part of the Island, run by locals. The charity has now opened another clinic just outside Jacmel.

Currently it is a tent facility, although they hope to build a permanent facility in the future. In the first three days of operation it saw 139 patients. The clinic is divided into several sections: general information, vitals, triage, consultations, laboratory and pharmacy. Haitian medical professionals as well as North American medical professionals and students staff the southern clinic.

The doctor, originally from New Brunswick, Canada, told The Royal Gazette the people of Haiti are still in desperate need of help.

"People are still living in tents," she said. "We had 7,000 living in a refugee camp nearby, about half of them were moved to another refugee camp on Monday. They were moved from one tent to another tent, but at least they have more room. It is a more spacious camp. We are working with another charity to build a community centre at the new camp.

"It has been more than six months since the earthquake but people are still in need of a lot of help. Only a tenth of the donations pledged around the world have reached Haiti." She plans to return to Haiti in mid September to check in on both clinics. It costs approximately $25,000 to run a clinic for a year in Haiti and Dr. Keenan is looking for donations to help sustain the two clinics they now have and further grow the charity.

The charity is also working with Haiti's Department of Health to compile a list of all medical facilities on the island. She said this would help aid workers to ensure there is no overlap in resources and provide medical workers with up-to-date information on the resources available near them.

l Read more about Dr. Keenan's charity at www.haitivillagehealth.blogspot.com. Donations to her charity can be made to Bank of Bermuda account number 010-871135-001 or via the website at www.haitivillagehealth.ca.