Strategy #3: Promoting Maternal/Child Health
Experts have likened Sudan’s dismal healthcare to “a perfect storm” of tropical diseases, lack of infrastructure, and a near total absence of trained professionals—a situation made all the worse by decades of war. Problems that have been eradicated in most of the rest of the world, like guinea worm and polio and Hansen’s disease (leprosy) , are still rampant in Sudan. MBB is engaged in small-scale efforts to assist women and children.
| $4,800 | Kuron Medical Clinic offers front-line nursing care in a very remote region of E. Equatoria. Patients walk many days to come to the clinic for care. Ugandan Sister Angela Limiyo, Clinic Director, treats gunshot wounds, burns, malaria, skin rashes, snake bites, complicated childbirths, and a host of other ailments. She has started a pre-nursing intern program, taking in 4 Sudanese young women who have finished high school to assist her at the clinic. Those who show promise will receive scholarships to formal nursing colleges at year’s end. | |
| $6,000 | $500/month will continue for another year the health promotion workshops begun in villages by Sr Kathleen Connolly during 2009. She has trained two Sudanese women to carry on this work. | |
| $5,000 | $1,000 provides health kits and medicine for each girls’ school. MBB would like to provide these to at least 5 schools in 2010. | |
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MBB Board Member Shirley Tamoria, a medical doctor with Kaiser in San Francisco, plans to organize a team of volunteer doctors to spend 2 weeks in Sudan. $5,000 will transport their supplies and pay for lodging and flights within Sudan. The doctors will pay their own costs to and from US/Sudan. |
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| Pre-Nursing Intern Rose with Kuron Med Clinic Director Sister Angela | Health Promotion Workshop Attendees | Dr Shirley Tamoria in Sudan |
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