Reduce infant mortality in the Philippines

Summary

We are a small medical center that provides affordable healthcare to impoverished areas of the Philippines, providing mother/child health clinics, dental clinics, prosthetics fabrication and distribution, cataract and pterygium surgeries, midwife education with the goal of reducing maternal and infant mortality, seeing and hearing clearly programs with the distribution of eyeglasses and hearing aids.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

There are close to 50,000 residents of the town of Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines. It was a fluorishing town before the eruption of the Mount Pinatubo in 1991. After that the town was wiped off the map and many people perished. People are slowly trickling back, but they lack good, affordable healthcare.. One of our main goals is to achieve ZERO infant and maternal mortality in the region through our well family, mother child clinics, midwife education.

How will this project solve this problem?

This project is one of many for the JADMC. We rely on the donation of medical equipment, large and small, from our generous donors in the United States. Currently, the building has just an ordinary connection like for a house. It was not made to accommodate air conditioners and large pieces of operating equipment. To properly and safely operate them at the JADMC, we need to install a transformer and an entire electrical distribution system throughout the building

Potential Long Term Impact

This project can help thousands of people in the region: we can operate our prosthetics lab so that the handicapped can get their new limbs, use the surgical microscopes to fix cataracts and pterygiums so people can see again, use our dental equipment safely, safely operate anesthesia machines for the Birthing Clinic.

Project Message

My husband works as a street vendor and we could not afford to go to one of the big hospitals to have our baby because it was too expensive.I was able to have the baby at the Satellite Birthing clinic
- Tessie Leleng, Patient at clinic

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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