By Elizabeth Appleyard | Program Officer
Dear Friends,
AIL’s Health Program continues to treat and educate thousands of people each month. In the first six months of the year 119,280 patients were treated and 78,498 people received health education. Patients often travel great distances to reach an AIL clinic because they know they will get quality care and quality drugs. Patients come for first aid care, vaccinations, nutrition, reproductive health, diseases and illnesses. Every patient and any family members with them receive health education at each visit to give them the knowledge of how to prevent illness or injury and how to treat minor ailments. Some of the most popular health education topics are those related to reproduction including breast feeding, nutrition, vaccines and hygiene. All this information helps pregnant women stay healthy.
AIL emphasizes the importance of vaccinations to patients attending with illness or injury and especially pregnant women. The clinics also have vaccinators going out to villages and vaccines are provided by the 30 Community Health Workers at 15 health posts. AIL participates in vaccination campaigns run by the government such as for polio. These vaccinations save lives especially those who are most vulnerable such as pregnant women and newborns. Afghanistan continues to have one of the world’s highest rates of maternal and infant mortality vaccines play a part in reducing these numbers.
"I am Sohaila and I have been working as a vaccinator for three years at Maladan. I do my best to improve my work. One of the important parts of my job is to make the people understand the value of vaccinating. One day I was talking about the value of vaccination and I faced a woman who was from Ghore province bt now was living in Herat Province. She said, "I am 30 years old and it is about one year that I have come to Herat with my family. I know nothing about vaccination and I have not been vaccinated yet because I have not known about vaccination and what it is for. So tell me about it, if I need to be vaccinated ". So I welcomed her and I gave her complete information about vaccination and then I gave her a vaccination card so she could get vaccines. I said it will absolutely decrease the rate of different maternal diseases. I am proud of being a vaccinator and that I am helping my people. When I work for my people I never become tired".
Thank you for your support.
By Elizabeth Appleyard | Program Officer
By Elizabeth Appleyard | Program Officer
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