Mobile
Health Care in Romania
Moldavia
is one of the poorest regions of Romania. Isolated rural areas have
no medical or social support. The few doctors have no transport.
The elderly poor have no income for medicine.
We
support Romanian doctors in several sprawling rural communities,
providing transport and medical care, plus food and clothing for
the very poor.
Read
a typical quarterly field
project report on Mobile Healthcare in Romania
Read
an evaluation by the EU_______List
of Benefits
We
address underlying health problems with health promotion and
family planning training for women, nurses and teachers.
The project serves an average of 528 beneficiaries
a month at a cost of a mere £2 per person.
"I
thank God for you - I cannot walk 20 Kms to see
the doctor"
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Ten years ago, there were no
family doctors whatever in this area. For two years, we provided
a mobile health care service with volunteer British G.P.’s.
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Romanian doctors have now
slowly returned but they lack the very basics e.g. transport and medicines to
be able to provide a proper service for their patients.
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Our
Mobile Health programme provides:
LIFE
AND DEATH SOCIAL SUPPORT – We target the very poorest making sure they receive
what they need to help them help themselves. For example: a new home and some
animals for a TB sufferer living in a leaky shack; a bicycle for a man with 10
children so that he can find work. Where appropriate we provide money for food
and medicines FAMILY
PLANNING – unless we provide free family planning advice and supplies to
these villages, abortion in the nearest town is the only family planning option
open to them. TRANSPORT
FOR OUTLYING VISITS AND VACCINATION PROGRAMMES – not only do we take doctors
miles into the country to do outlying home visits to the very ill, we create the
climate and precedent that this is what needs to happen. ESSENTIAL
DRUGS SUPPLY FOR EMERGENCIES AND THE VERY POOR – how can doctors help their
patients when they have no drugs and their patients have no money? We provide
essential supplies and create a sustainable solution with the… …SETTING
UP OF SMALL RURAL PHARMACIES – we lobby for the extension of these pharmacies
with the drug companies and transport the pharmacists. A
MOBILE PHYSIOTHERAPY SERVICE – physio and rehabilition programmes at home
for stroke victimes, spina bifida children and many more. HEALTH
EDUCATION – in schools and dispensaries- prevention being better than cure. NURSE
and DOCTOR TRAINING - rural doctors and nurses are badly paid and very isolated.
We deliver training and exchange visits to the UK to encourage them to develop
their own services and working environment. We
have run 10 nurse training programmes in the past couple of years and are also
heavily involved
in TB training for GPs.
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An EU Phare-Tacis Lien Monitor reported on this project: “The project area is very poor…even by Romanian standards. The inhabitants live in small villages often
isolated from each other and the outside world. Connections are often by dirt track or unmade road.
Running water is not universal, a village well being common.
Agriculture is largely subsistence and the population is an elderly
one as the younger people leave for employment in the towns.” “It was good to see politicians from district to local level,
doctors, teachers, nurses … and the people themselves all working together
with the charity in a feeling of mutual
trust and shared objectives“
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