Maternal and Child Health Clinics

Mobile Maternal Child Health Clinics

We continued conducting Mobile MCH clinics in over 516 villages. In January, we had 15 MCH clinics where 341 mothers were educated on Nutrition, malaria prevention, family planning, hypertension, breastfeeding, tuberculosis, hygiene and sanitation, diabetes, water safety.

• 200 children were growth monitored
• 56 children received Vitamin A supplementation
• 70 children under 5 years were dewormed
• 3 children were referred to our Community Clinic for the nutritional management
• 195 children were treated.
• 285 mothers got free treatment.

Community Health Volunteers training and Certification.

We all aspire to receive and access quality, reliable and affordable healthcare services. The Kenyan Ministry of Health is geared to achieving quality healthcare for all through the integration of Primary Healthcare(PHC) approach and the Universal Health Coverage(UHC). To achieve both PHC and UHC, there should consistent health education and awareness at Community Level (families/households). Village HopeCore works with a team of 206 community Health Volunteers from Mwimbi and Muthambi sub-counties.  The CHVs are crucial in our mission of building healthy communities through their health promotion activities such as door-to-door health education, tracing of immunization and TB defaulters, nutritional assessments and referrals.

To enable them to perform these functions more efficiently they require sufficient skills and therefore there was the need for them to be trained.  In January, we conducted a 5 days CHVs module 1 training on:

• Day 1: Community Health strategy, Community Leadership, Problem-solving, communication, counselling, advocacy, and social mobilization.
• Day 2: Community Dialogue, Family planning, Healthy lifestyle, newborn and childcare and Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH).
• Day 3: Maternal Health, prevention of injuries (including falls, poisoning, burns, choking and drowning), common conditions {cough, nosebleeds, eye conditions, ear conditions, skin conditions (scabies, tinea, jigger’s infestations) and diarrhoea, common injuries (wounds, burns, fractures, bites & stings) and disease surveillance.
• Day 4: Specific disease prevention (Malaria, TB, STI), Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), danger signs in children, lifesaving skills (theory)

• Day 5: Management and use of community health information.

This training aimed at equipping the CHVs with relevant knowledge and skills so that they would disseminate correct health information and practices to mothers within their community units.

CHVs summary Data:

• The CHVs did 4477 home visits, conduct growth monitoring to1027 children under 5years of which 5had MUAC indicating red hence requiring to follow up
• Counselled 121 pregnant women on the Individual Birth Plan, advised them on the importance of skilled delivery and referred them for ANC Clinics
• Visited 56new-borns and offered education on the importance of exclusive breastfeeding to the mothers.
• 90.3% of the children in the households visited by CHVs in January were sleeping under mosquito nets. Only 2% of households reported having a case of clinically diagnosed malaria in the last days.

 HEALTH FAIR WITH MEDTREKS INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS

Over the past three years, HopeCore’s partnership with MedTreks Kenya and MedTreks International has grown significantly. Since 2018, MedTreks has been sending cohorts of experienced medical practitioners to volunteer cohesively with Village HopeCore for periods not less than one week twice per year. The MedTreks team visited HopeCore in January where the held training sessions and joined our teams to the field. We held on health fair/outreach event with the MedTreks team where we: 

We conducted targeted health education sessions:

• 145 adults were educated on Diabetes, nutrition and Hypertension
• 38 MCH mothers were educated on nutrition and breastfeeding
• 60 Youths were educated on hygiene and SRH.

We also did growth monitoring to 27 Children under 5 years, this aims at assessing the child’s growth concerning their height, weight and head circumference.

• 26 laboratory tests were done to children under 5 years
• 42 children received free treatment services.
• 130 mothers and 40 fathers were treated.

The common conditions seen and treated in children under five years were: respiratory tract infections, fevers of unknown origin, diarrhoea and other skin conditions. In adults, we had Hypertension, Joint pains/arthritis, respiratory tract infection, urinary tract infection, skin conditions and eye conditions

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