Provide healthcare to remote displaced communities

1.0 Project Goal

To provide free primary healthcare services to people in vulnerable communities affected by the ongoing socio-political crisis in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon.

 1.1 Project Objectives

1. To support two (2) CHWs in Kitta, Ekondo-Titi Health District to provide free primary healthcare services to those in need.
2. To perform surveillance on diseases prone to outbreaks in Kitta.

2.0 Results

2.1 Provision of Healthcare services to Vulnerable Persons: In the month of December, community health workers in Ekondo Titi provided primary health care services to 94 people (40 males and 54 females) of the vulnerable population in Kitta. These services included treatment of simple malaria (36 people; 19 males and 17 females), simple diarrhea (31 people: 19 males and 12 females) and simple acute respiratory tract infection (26 people: 15 males and 11 females). For maternal care, 6 newly identified pregnant women were referred to health facilities for ANC and 3 birth were reported in the community.

2.2  Sensitisation for Health promotion: The CHWs mobilized and engaged over 300 members of host communities in health educative talks for health promotion during home visits and community gatherings. The most attended educational talk sessions were on malaria prevention and use of LLINS (394), diarrhea prevention (392 persons), proper waste disposal (366), A.R.I prevention(345 persons andproper use of latrine(325 people).

2.3 Screening of Children <5 years for Severe Acute Malnutrition: The CHWs in Ekondo-titi screened 82 children (Figure 2) < 5 years were consulted for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) using a MUAC tape and 14 caregivers were sensitized on appropriate feeding for children <5 years.

3.0 Impact Stories

Rose is two years old and lives in Kitta community with her parents. Her Father sells petrol and her mom is a stay home wife. Rose and her parents do not make proper use of the LLINS given to them and this makes them prone and vulnerable to recurring malaria infection. During home visits, the CHW consulted Rose after her parents complained of a persisting fever which has lasted 24 hours and calms down after administering Paracetamol and giving her a cold bath. Rose was suspected for malaria and was immediately tested with an RDT. Results confirmed simple malaria. The CHW administered free medication for treatment. He also sensitised her parents on how to administer the medications, the proper use of LLINS and other methods of malaria prevention. After one week, Rose was in full recovery. Her parents expressed their gratitude to the GlobalGiving crowd funding platfrom for relieving the burden of going to the health facility and incurring the cost of consultation, testing and purchasing medications for Rose. They are satistfied beneficiaries of the GlobalGiving project in Kumba.