This week
was the last one for a big part of the Health Project team. Lots of things to be done.
Parra was
finishing the reports about HIV and medical caravans, and Luis the one of the
medical examination done to Msitu children. Later, they show them to the doctor
of Msitu and to PamojaTunaweza. Plenty of data was analized and really
good information was got to plan new projects.
Jaime gave
a big impulse to the program formation for the mamas, that later whe revise and
finished all together. He was also helping with the tourism project,
translating the information into Spanish.
Hanna was
in charge of this week seminar. This one was difficult, as we wanted to talk to
the mamas about drugs side-effects, in order to advise them of the dangers of
giving drugs without medical supervision. The seminars went great, the mamas
said it was because Hanna is a really good teacher, but Hanna insists that they
are perfect students.
Julia was
helping another NGO, Cre-Aid. They are building two houses in Msitu and they
wanted us to talk to the families about personal and house hygiene. Julia
worked this week with one of the families, and although it was difficult
because of the conditions, with the help of Zara and with drawings that were put in the walls of their new house, everything went well.
In the
dispensary, I was learning how is the pregnancy women and children-under-five
care, as well as the family planning program. These issues are given a big
importance during the last years, and in the dispensary, they seem to work
quite well. Luis was with Junior and the doctor, measuring blood pressure. Our goal
was that someone in the dispensary did that work when we leave. But they didn’t
like the idea, as they said they have already a lot of work. We will try again.
Miranda has
been preparing a new medical caravanfor the Home Based Care (HBC,) that will
take place on Saturday with a doctor from PamojaTunaweza, thanks to the
extra-money we got with the donations. The HBC is a program from the government
that tries to give follow up to patients that require special cares and have
difficulties to go to the dispensary. Veronica is the one in charge, and they
are also other three workers and three more volunteers. They have more than 140
cases, so this week the team formed by Veronika, Gasto, Miranda and Hanna visit
some of them in order to decide which ones will take more advantage from the
caravan. This was hard work. Every day more cases about people with serious
medical problems and difficult family
situations reach our ears. TATU can not take over these cases, as we don’t have the necessary
resources, but there are some local NGO that can, as CCBRT, Plaster House or
Gabriellla Rehabilitation Cente. This one is a NGO that works with disable
children and has offered to evaluate the incorporation of a boy from Msitu with
cerebral palsy to one of their programs. For future
cases, we have gave the contacts of these NGOs to the doctor and Veronika.
Luis,
Parra, Miranda, Jaime and I have said goodbye to Msitu this week. Luckily,
Julia and Hanna are staying to give the final push to the project.