What does this entail?
- Instruction in the following areas of health care:
- Sanitation practices
- Common first aid procedures
- Prevalent tropical diseases
- HIV/AIDS
- Community Health Promotion
- Resource & medication distribution
- Offering community medical clinics
Why do it?
- Poor health goes hand in hand with poverty in undeveloped countries
- Limited access to sufficient and quality health care Health because of geographic isolation or economic privation
- 80% of hospital admissions are due to preventable diseases
- poor hygiene & sanitation account for 50% (worms, dysentery, diarrhea & cholera, etc.)
- Malaria is the leading killer of children under five years old
- prevention can be practiced
- early recognition & treatment is paramount
- Education is the most effective weapon against HIV/AIDS
How will we apply these principles?
- Staff & workers at the Center will be trained in all of the above mentioned health care issues
- The Center will exhibit, educate & enable excellent sanitation practices on the premises
- The Director of Community Outreach will organize and schedule community training classes for each health care area relying on the expertise of both local and foreign health care facilitators
- Kenya Red Cross
- Health Education Africa Resource Team (HEART)
- Partners for Care
- Caravita Health Care
- Foreign medical teams
- Staff who are CDC trained in oral swab testing for HIV/AIDS
What are our plans for Community Outreach?
- Exhibit and encourage good sanitation practices at the Center
- Educate community members in each health care issue listed herein
- Host scheduled and advertised classes on site
- Offer quality training by certified health care facilitator
- Enable the health of the community by offering free medical clinics both on site and at appointed locations within the community
- Headed by professional medical doctors & nurses
- Offering:
- * HIV/AIDS VCT services – oral testing and counseling
- * diagnosis of health conditions
- * dispensing of appropriate medications
- * medical counseling
What are the Potential Outcomes?
- Breaking the cycle of poor sanitation practices within the community
- Improving the overall health of the community
- Impacting the high child mortality rate & preventable disease deaths
- Creating a health-conscious mindset within families
- Arming the community with beneficial, life-saving transferable knowledge & skills