By Gillian Wilson | Communications Director
From July to December of 2008, SATU provided medical services to 1,500 families through a traveling health clinic and a permanent health clinic. The traveling clinic is operated 20 days per month in different communities. A room or house is provided by the local community, taking into account easy access, hygiene and privacy concerns. In these clinics, a trained female medical assistant offers health checkups to pregnant women as well as mothers and newborns. Since our last update, 125 women and their babies received pre and post-natal care.
In the permanent clinic, the medical assistant provides diagnoses, treatments, prescriptions and medicine for the general public and offers referrals to patients to hospitals as needed. Some of the common illnesses treated are diarrhea, dysentery, worms, malnutrition, fever, and measles.
These kinds of health services are invaluable in the remote areas where SATU works, where transportation to health services is too expensive for most and where malnutrition and other poverty-related health issues overwhelming affect women and the young. Without these clinics and services, many women and children would not receive any medical attention whatsoever.
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