One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.
Leonard Ravenhill
"The lives of many children with pneumonia, diarrhoea or malaria could have been saved if a trained community health worker had been on hand to provide correct treatment," she said.
Powerful words from Jennifer Bryce of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public Health, after studying the outcome of UNICEF's recent four year program to combat child death in Africa.
In 2010 New Foundations programs will be entirely Health Care Worker led, and based at the grass roots of need where continuity can be assured. Economic and effective this seems to back the report cited above in response to large centralised and expensive programs
Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8455444.stm
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2009 at a glance: Video
- 6000 patients treated at the clinic
- 50% of the cases acute malaria, the predominant others pneumonias, dysentery, and measles.
- Clinic open 24hrs a day 7 days a week all year
- 50 operations, hernias, gynae, cleft lip, caesarean section, acute appendices, and surgical biopsies
- 130 patients fitted with glasses
- 800 vaccinations
- 26 satellite community boat camps in remote settings, over 1200 patients seen and treated
- research paper on helminth (worm) infections in children
- subsequently 1000 children receiving anti-worming treatment
- start up liaison with primary and secondary school to foster science curriculum
- climbing frame constructed beside clinic for children
- enabling Dr Oghumu to undertake diploma at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- over 500 cataract operations now completed
Q. What sort of costs are we talking about?
A. Well, we have operating costs of around £800 per month, and no paid admin staff.
Q. Give me some idea of what money will buy.
A. Africa is surprisingly expensive to work in , but £5 can still go a long way
Q. Can I see your accounts?
A. No problem, click here.
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