Aid and Care, Inc - Health Initiative

		Health Initiative

The Health Project Initiative Mission Goal is to develop and provide health access in the villages where health information and services are entirely inadequate. The HPI sets its goals to focus on provision of basic medicines and teaching of health awareness and preventions and build clinics where basic treatments will be provided. In Southern Sudan and in particular Aweil Region, hundred villagers die of simple and treatable diseases due to lack of medical services and clinics in the villages that have been affected by civil war since 1983.

The villages in Southern Sudan critically need a local clinics, health care and health awareness services. HPI intends to build clinics as soon as clinics' facilities and funds are made available but first, the provisions of antibiotic medicines are primary concern and priorities at the current time. Death rates for children are very high in the villages in Southern Sudan. Children are not vaccinated, even against common childhood diseases, tetanus, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, tuberculosis, and measles. There is no maternity or routine postpartum or well baby care available locally. There is no emergency service. There is no facility for routine testing, although there is frequent need for blood sugar, malaria, and other tests. The nearest comprehensive health care available is the only one in capital city, Aweil, about 275 miles away from each village. Taking sick ones to that health center is impossible, inconvenient, and difficult; especially for mothers and for the elderly and infirm always end up at death. It could take one and half days while carrying sick ones on the shoulders as a typical ambulance in Southern Sudan. Some diseases even affect people in a few minutes and die in some minutes later. What causes such diseases are barely known at all. It is a quest for duty which we must search and solve it through medical facilities availability.

There are no ambulances! No even a regular vehicle in the villages. The proposed project consists of the construction and equipping of a clinic which will be staffed by a volunteer nurses, doctors, and health specialists. It will provide: outpatient services; preventive services including vaccination, maternity and postpartum and well-baby care; common laboratory tests; health education; emergency care and stabilization of patients for transporting to the main hospitals in a city of Aweil. At clinic, health awareness group will put an effort to preach about sexual transmitted diseases in every corner where such information is rarely available. The present of facility will make primary health services convenient and available for all. This project will serve about 85,000 inhabitants of Aweil villages and the surrounding areas. Pregnant women are also victims of lack of clinics in the villages or lack of knowledgeable person to help them during delivery. Long-term childbirth without hospital specialists or attendees, mainly leads to mother or a child death could be possibly both to die. This has become a major problem and continuing threat to young women in the villages at current time.

HPI will provide health awareness and protections (HAP) in order to successfully foster short and long-term positive change and awareness of effective disease in rural communities. We realize that the suffering communities need education about health issues. We must empower local residents to address their concerns in a comprehensive and sustainable way. All program activities are designed to ultimately become self-sustaining, and will serve as the foundation of a health development model that can be primary source of health information or similar settings throughout the villages face terrible diseases effectiveness. Southern Sudan is one of nations that formal awareness about wide spread of HIV/AIDs is too limited.

There are many children and mothers out there suffer from lack of proper nutrition in their bodies. Lack of nutrition put hands on people's lives as many die of anemia and other related diseases. Having seen such important need, Victims' Nutrition Center will be built to help feed chilren with such problems but has yet to be built due to lack of finances and facilities. The aim of the Nutrition Center is to promote nutrition, food security, health to children and mothers who suffer from lack of nutrition value. It would also provide general social and economic status of the suffering population in villages. It is our hope that this Nutrition Center will be able to teach health professionals in Southern Sudan and sustainable ways to help their villages achieve better health and wellness.