By Adrian Gosling | Operations Director
One of the ways we are helping increase access to healthcare is by making sure the Community Health Workers we train have got the equipment they need to do their vital work. Thanks to our donors we’ve been able to provide the healthcare volunteers with backpacks filled with simple equipment like thermometers, stopwatches, water bottles, bandages and basic medications.
To enable them to travel further to reach more patients they are being provided with ‘Buffalo Bicycles’ – robust and easily maintained bikes designed for rough rural terrain. These bicycles will significantly increase the capacity of the health workers to make home visits to patients and expectant mothers. They’ll also be able to reach the nearest Rural Health Centres to meet with the staff there and collect the supplies they’ll need for their frontline health care work.
The Community Health Workers are delighted to have received all this equipment and are already reporting that they are getting to see more people more quickly.
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