sponsor COMMUNITY HEALTH
The purpose of this clinic is to provide primary health care and treatment to the Mateves community. The Mateves Community Health Center will focus on long-term community health through preventative health education and emphasis on prenatal and pediatric care, and reducing the limited-accessibility barrier to healthcare.
By improving health we simultaneously attack social problems of HIV/AIDS, poverty, health inequality. Our hope is that the Mateves Community Health Center may serve as an efficient and replicable sustainable health model in other wards around Arusha, Tanzania and the global community.
We plan to meet these goals through implementing sustainable environmental and economic methods. Some highlights of a novel approach:
- Provide free health care to pregnant mothers and orphaned children while maintaining quality of care
- Significantly reduce childhood mortality due to preventable diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, diahorreal illnesses
- Advocate pregnant mothers to receive HIV tests during prenatal clinical care
Provide free and regularly accessible HIV/AIDS testing, education, and counseling
Preventative care is central to sustaining long-term health of an individual and community, and will be practiced through:
- Health education for parents and patients, access to information on family planning, early childhood development, nutrition
- Early detection and early treatment knowledge for symptoms to common diseases
- Affordable low-cost examinations and treatment for all residents
- Free examinations and treatment for abandoned and orphaned children
- Free HIV testing and counseling
Is achieved through shared responsibility.
- The vast majority of people in the Arusha area currently travel to town for treatment which can often take an entire day’s time and also be very costly. OHS intends to make the medical center available to all at a fraction of the in-town cost.
- The profits earned from doctor’s visits and the pharmaceutical dispensary will be allocated to provide free services for orphaned and vulnerable children.
- Adult patients invest in community health by paying a small fraction above cost that goes toward assistance to orphaned an vulnerable children.
- Free HIV testing for the ward and free malaria test for all children will be provided for by donation bundles.
The innovative design for the center will integrate the use of solar power and rain water collection, the technology of high-compression earth bricks, and a water pump powered by kid’s play. Using an environmentally conscious approach minimizes the environmental impact and significantly reduces costs in the long run.
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