REPORT ON MOBILE CLINIC PROGRAM
IN HUONG PHONG COMMUNE, HUONG TRA DISTRICT , TT- HUE PROVINCE
22nd February, 2009
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I. Objectives: Provide general health care for needy families and children who are living in the poor and remote areas in Vietnam, identify cases for serious medical needs.
II. Background and problems:
It is about 45 Km far towards Hue city, Huong Phong is one of the poor communes of Huong Tra District of Thua Thien Hue Province. There are about 7635 households, among them there are 2900 poor ones. Realising the difficulties and the urgent need of villagers on health care, FHF financed the Mobile Clinic Program in this commune on the 22th of Febuary, 2009.
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III. Planning:
Before carrying out the program, the representative of FHF, Mrs Nhi, had documents to the Competent Authotity of Health Public Department, Foreign Affairs Department, Red Cross Association of TT- Hue to inform the trip of MCP78, meeting with the local authorities of Huong Tra District, Huong Phong Commune to plan for implementing of the program. Huong Phong counterpart would be responsible for identifying 350 needy people in the villages of the commune, and for delivering them the medical ticket in advance; sending two officers who will co-operate with FHF in order to guarantee safety for the medical team and the patients.
The medical team was comprised 12 members including 5 voluntary doctors and 1 pharmacist who have long experience working for Hue Central Hospital and another hospital in Hue, 4 staff of FHF and 1 Australia volunteers, 1 USA volunteers . To guarantee safety in using medicine, the medicines were purchased in Hue City, and the final work was to rent a car with 12 seats.
Here are the list of medical team: |
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1/ Duong Quynh Nhi |
Rep of FHF.Hue |
2/ Le Thi Huynh Sa |
Doctor |
3/ Nguyen Huu Tuan |
Doctor |
4/ Bui Thi Khanh Ty |
Doctor |
5/ Nguyễn Thị Tảo |
Pharmacist |
6/ Tran Thi Bich Chau |
Doctor |
7/ Hoàng Thị Tâm |
Doctor |
8/ Huynh Viet Hy |
Volunteer (USA) |
9/ Kieran Thomas Dowling |
Volunteer (Australia) |
10/ Luu Minh Nhung |
(FHF Staff) |
11/ Nguyen Huu Binh |
(FHF staff) |
12/ Nguyễn Thị Thuận Khánh |
(FHF staff) |
IV. Implementation:
The medical team started at 7am on the 22 of Febuary, 2009 in Hue, and after 30 minutes by car we arrived in Huong Phong Commune. The MCP was organised in the building of the People’s Committee of Huong Phong Commune, and we used a hall for MCP. At 8.00 the medical examination began, every patient who came for examination was provided one medical ticket in advance, and entering to see a doctor under the conducting of local officers. After finishing the medical examination, they moved to the nearby pharmacy to receive medicine for free. With the help and co-operation from the local committee, the medical examination was carried out smoothly and achieved the good results:
During one day, we examined and delivered medicine a total of 293 patients.
Diseases/Health Conditions |
Cases Treated |
Helminthiasis ( Giun san ) |
29 |
Bronchitis ( ho hap ) |
64 |
Cardiovascular |
18 |
Skin |
16 |
Lung |
59 |
Nutritional Deficiency |
198 |
Fibrosistis, Arthritis ( viem mo ) |
48 |
Hypertension/High Blood Pressure |
33 |
Trachoma |
15 |
Encephalopathy (vegetative nervous disorder, vestibule disorder, neuritis, ) |
47 |
Digestion ( constipation, colitis, gastritis, enteritis ) |
109 |
Anaemia |
19 |
Other ( Osteomalacia, toothache, degradation of spinal column, tumour, suffer fron grave, bubo, sciatic nerve, asthenic…) |
170 |
In this MCP 78 we realized that the need of be in taken care in by our MCP is very high in this commune, although this commune is not far away Hue city they are too poor to acsess to health service. So our MCP program is very useful and effective to them.
- Financial summary:
Pay for medicine |
5,688,500 |
Expenditure for the Doctors |
950,000 |
Pay for hiring a bus |
800,000 |
Pay for drinking and lunch |
675,000 |
Pay for copying a medical ticket and slogan |
150,000 |
Nylon package and battery |
80,000 |
Total: |
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VI. Pictures:
Attached files
Hue city, 25th Febuary, 2009
Reporter
Duong Quynh Nhi