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Healthcare and Solar energy in Okoroba for 26000 Cameroonians.
‘Please make a year-end gift so more enclave pregnant women/Girls like Sarah can have a safe Delivery’
Summary
Nkwendehills Development foundation intends to set-up a basic Rural Healthcare Centre in Okoroba and installs it with a stand-alone hybrid solar PV system to be used for running and lighting the centre and refrigerators used for conserving vaccines. This will serve some 26000 Cameroonians living in 18 remote Villages with no access to Healthcare, water and Electricity. There is a local Government Health Centre with only one Nurse covering all the services and providing 0.02% of Healthcare in these poverty stricken and enclave communities in Cameroon. Pregnant mothers have a 50% chance of dying during pregnancy or delivery because births are unattended; 20% of the children die before the age of 3, although no official statistics exist. The nearest quality Healthcare service is 66km away leaving room for quacks to venture in the provision of services.
Through this project, we would open a Healthcare unit with a permanent setup in the remote area of Okoroba-Obang. This will provide both preventive and curative Healthcare services within the same Physical unit, mother-child family clinic, midwifery, a Home visiting service for periodic medical exams and a minor theatre.
What is the issue, problem or challenge?
The remote communities of Okoroba-Obang in Cameroon critically lack access to basic Healthcare that could enable them fulfill their hopes of a bright and Healthy future. Women as well as children are frequently attacked by diseases which have led to high maternal and infant mortality rates. There is no reliable, accessible or affordable Healthcare. Most of the people are local craftsmen and farmers. When they become ill or disabled he/she just stops working. The situation is especially alarming since the women and girls in this part of the country are more likely to die during childbirth. Scarce or irregular Government aid, the lack of sanitary and precarious infrastructure and the complete absence of electricity that could allow them leap forward into the 21st century further aggravates the situation.
How will this project solve this problem?
By putting in place a sustainable quality Healthcare within a greater reach to the Okoroba-Obang women, children, craft men and the farming population. This project will equally train community and village Health workers who will serve patients with Health education, midwifery, medical examination, pharmacy, laboratory analysis, dentistry, minor surgery, nutrition, Sanitation and family planning services. By bringing Healthcare to the downtrodden and making it available to people who otherwise do not have it. The centre would be open 24hours everyday for 6days each week while keeping in mind the affordability and quality of treatment.
Potential Long Term Impact
The Healthcare unit will be the single source of reliable, accessible and quality Healthcare service to the people of this area. By saving the mother and the girl child could mean re-instating the culture of continuity. The project is going to create a model of rural private/public Health partnership with the government and the remoteness will be a thing only of the past. Many job opportunities for locals will be created.
Total in U.S Dollars = $66.000
FUNDING INFORMATION
Total funding received to date: $0
Remaining Goal to be funded: $66.000
Total funding Goal: $66.000
Starting date: September 1, 2015
Expiration date: March 30th, 2016
- $10
Will provide safe delivery for a baby
- $20
Will purchase antibiotics for those with wounds infections
- $25
Will immunize 5 children
- $80
45women will receive basic Healthcare and Health education
- $100
Will provide free medicine for one week to 200 rural people
- $125
Pays for one village or community Health workers salary and training
- $500
Will pay technician labor to build a shelter for solar panels and wire the centre
- $66.000
Will fully fund this project