To roll out the Surmang Clinic Model among poor nomads and farmers in 4 public clinics in Yushu Prefecture, to clinics destroyed in the Yushu earthquake. This model focuses on: • doctor training improving their capacity, through best practices and • increasing access to medical services among poor nomadic and farming Tibetans via a corps of Community Health Workers • adding smart infrastructure such as IT-enabled networks, online diagnosis and consultation
1.earthquake: 4/14/10, a 6.9 level quake destroyed the Tibetan town of Yushu, Qinghai Prov., China. 90,000 people were left homeless, over 2600 perished. All hospitals and clinics leveled. 2. poverty: income less than US14¢/day. 3. medical care: poverty and no access --targets women mainly: -no access to services. -births are mainly unattended; -1/5 children die before their 2nd birthday; - 3000/100,000 women die in delivery (50/100,000, Beijing); - 1 in 15 pregnant women die prior to delivery.
Surmang Fnd, the 1st NGO in Qinghai Prov., worked in Yushu Co. since 1992. We are now one of few international foundations in a Tibetan area. In the past 10 years alone, Surmang has provided free medical care to over 150,000 patients; has Community Health Workers who’ve delivered over 60 babies a year. Surmang Foundation & Yushu Prefecture Gov't. will move this private model into the public sphere. We will apply this model to this crisis, giving an over ½ mil. ultra-poor access to medical care.
Introducing community-based, environmentally friendly development work that honors the indigenous culture, and economic realities, works with government and monastic stakeholders, will help sustain the people with a systemic solution to this tragedy.
"If you were here 15 years ago, many women and children who needlessly died would be walking the earth today."
- Pema, Community Health Worker, Rongbu
Total Funding Received to Date: $13,500
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $49,500
Total Funding Goal: $63,000
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