Physicians for Social Justice, PSJ, runs Mobile Clinics that provide life-saving health services to poor families in rural Enugu, Nigeria. Due to difficult terrain, we face serious difficulty to convey our medical personnel, supplies and equipments to these remote rural areas where we provide healthcare services. We urgently need a 4-wheel drive vehicle as reliable means of transportation. This will guarantee regular access to care, and improve the health and wellbeing of 34000 rural families.
In 90% of villages that PSJ operates mobile clinics, there are no functional transport service. The terrain is difficult, as there are no paved roads. We face serious difficulty to convey our medical personnel, equipments and medical supplies to target populations in remote villages who depend on us for life-saving health services. During the rainy season, it is sometimes impossible for us to reach some remote villages that depend on our life-saving health care, without 4-wheel drive vehicle.
If we procure a 4-wheel drive vehicle, we will have a reliable means of transport to convey our medical personnel, equipments and medical supplies to rural villages where we operate mobile clinic services, irrespective of the geographic location or the season. Poor people in rural communities who depend on us for health care services will have regular, uninterrupted access to primary care, ante-natal care, HIV counseling and testing, health education and free health commodities such as bednets.
Clinical and preventive health care provided through PSJ's mobile clinic will benefit at least 34000 rural families with life-saving health services on regular, uninterrupted basis. Project will significantly improve maternal and child health and wellbeing in rural Enugu State. If we provide insecticide treated nets and water purification chemicals on regular basis, we will significantly reduce incidences of malaria, typhoid fever and diarrhea diseases especially among children
