We are very proud to announce that Real Medicine Foundation has received a grant from the Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund for our disaster relief efforts in response to the flooding in Pakistan.
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Downey Family Health Care Center
September 1, 2010
By Dr. Natalie Nevins and Dr. Martina Fuchs
The Downey Family Health Center we support is expanding it’s program support in Los Angeles, which provides access to health services to low income populations through a new service delivery site in collaboration with Family Health Care Centers of Greater Los Angeles (FHCCGLA)
The new site is located within FHCCGLA’s defined service delivery area will serve the same target population, uninsured and vulnerable community residents. There are large numbers of residents living at or below the poverty level in census tracts surrounding the new service delivery location. FHCCGLA has/will enter into a 10-year lease for the new health center location. The addition of the DFHCC was approved by FHCCGLA’s board of directors in June 2010.
The new service delivery site will operate under the auspices of FHCCGLA in collaboration with Downey Regional Medical Center (DRMC). The DFHCC site blends two mutually beneficial objectives of providing access to health services for low-income and uninsured populations while serving as a training site for the next generation of health care practitioners, many of whom choose to continue to practice in underserved communities beyond their training.
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Please join us in welcoming Ms. Sophia Nyame, the new Project Manager for the Nursing and Midwifery College Project we are sponsoring in Southern Sudan. Sophia is a Registered Nurse/Midwife with 23 years of clinical experience and with a wealth of knowledge in Programme Management. She has worked as a Nursing Tutor, Clinical Nurse Supervisor and Hospital Matron in Ghana and as an International Midwife Trainer in Liberia.
Sophia has also been involved in Programmes in Ghana that are directed towards reduction in teenage pregnancy and HIV/AIDS transmission. She has a Diploma in Public Health, Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery, Certificate in Development Management and is fluent in French.
Sophia, will be helping our Assistant Project Manager Bilha Achieng in ensuring the success and future of the new College.
Maria and Pankaj
The Importance of a Whole Health Approach: malnutrition and psychosocial neglect
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Real Medicine Foundation just held a 2nd free medical camp in Charsadda this past Sunday the 29th of August for flood affected, at the Union Council Majukay. A total of 1,894 patients were diagnosed and treated through this 2nd RMF Free Medical Camp, consisting of 65 % male, 35 % female including 23 % children.
Around 109 serious patients were referred to hospitals at DHQ Charsadda, LRH Peshawar and Khyber Teaching Hospital.
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we will be holding many more of these free medical camps for all in need. Full reports with treatment data of all our Medical Outreach camps will continue to be published on our website soon here.
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By Derrick Lowoto, Clinical Officer
Derrick seeing a patient at an outreach camp
Our health care outreach program in collaboration with Share International and Medical Mission International serves the area of Turkana Kenya. The aim is to improve the delivery of primary Health Care Services within the Turkana Drought Region in Northern Kenya, its capital Lodwar and the people living in the remote villages of Turkana, Kenya.
The following are some patient success stories told by Derrick Lowoto, the Clinical Officer, over the past three months from Turkana.
Article printed in the Pakistani publication The News by Ameer Bhutto, a Pakistani politician.
THE FLOOD AND THE FUTURE
By Ameer Bhutto
Article printed in
The News
on 26 August 2010
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has described the devastation caused by floods in Pakistan as the greatest disaster in world history. The impact of lives lost can not be assessed by numbers alone and damage to property is bound to soar into unfathomable figures. The plight of the displaced flood victims is harrowing. They are camped out under the blazing sun on elevated roadsides, rooftops or hillocks, surrounded by the raging waters. Some have been stranded in treetops for many days. Food and clean water are in short supply and many go for days without eating. The flood water they are constrained to drink is polluted by, among other things, dead animals because of which cholera, gastroentitus, malaria, diarrhea, hepatitis and skin diseases are rampant. With tens of millions suffering under such subhuman conditions, it is clear that intervention on an unprecedented scale is required otherwise people will start dying from starvation and diseases in numbers that do not even bear contemplation.
Rehabilitation of the displaced is a task of mammoth proportions.
Since most schools in many towns are full of flood victims, these schools can not reopen until they return to their homes. But most of them have nothing left and nowhere to return to, their homes having been swept away and their limited means of livelihood, in most cases this being the standing crops, having been destroyed. How will they even begin to rebuild their lives? But their lives have to be rebuilt, because otherwise, in the coming days, we will have an army of millions on our hands who will have no choice but to take to crime in order to feed their families. Grain must be imported to make up for the destroyed crops and the damaged roads, railway tracks and power generating units and grid stations must be rebuilt forthwith. The country will suffer the economic after effects of this calamity for years to come.
By Fabien Toegel
RMF-Jeevan Jyoti HIV care center receives award, Government to make our model a policy
Meghnagar, August 25: The National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) decided last week to expand the function of so-called Link ART Centers (LAC). RMF set up and has been supporting such a center at Jeevan Jyoti Hospital in a public private partnership, which recently received an award as best Link ART Center out of the 5 attached to the main Indore ART Center and is currently treating 44 patients with free antiretroviral drugs supplied by the Government. On Saturday, August 21st, NACO’s data manager from Indore visited our center and was pleased with the thorough recording and reporting.
The expanded role proposed by NACO acknowledges the model of care already provided by Jeevan Jyoti Hospital for more than 200 patients which had been identified with RMF’s support over the past 5 years. The specific LAC services will include enrolling patients into care, pre-ART management including basic investigations and sample collection for CD4 count, following up on patient not yet eligible for ART, screening for HIV-TB co-infection, and tracking of patients who missed appointments. RMF has been supporting these activities which involved taking patients on a weekly basis to 150-km far Indore, a long and expensive journey on bad roads which will become largely redundant under the new program.
NACO has already developed a revised 3-day training module which includes clinical examination for adult and pediatric patients, case discussions in the wards as well as exercises to practice the pill count system, recording and tracking, and RMF will ensure to have the Jeevan Jyoti staff trained as soon as possible. The RMF-Jeevan Jyoti link ART center was inaugurated on July 25th, 2009 and continues to excel in patient care in the form of a public private partnership.
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Sheherbano
Guest blogger today Sherbano Mehdi writes today about the fundraiser we held this past Sunday which raised over $23,000 for victims of the Floods in Pakistan. Special thanks goes out to Dr. Zeba Vanek and Ali Vanek who were generous enough to hold the event at their home on behalf of RMF. We have already held our first medical relief outreach camp and will be holding many more with these generous donations.
“The floods in Pakistan have once again brought us together. On our ever-changing planet Earth we are reminded that our ability to work together across borders is the only hope for mankind to survive and flourish.
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