We conducted a Mobile Clinic around the villages between January 21st and 26th, 2009, for expecting women, nursing mothers and children, in collaboration with a Japanese midwife nurse and medical staff from Kompong Seila District health center.
This project was made possible thanks to the generous funding by OHDAKE Foundation through the NGO Side By Side International.
The mobile clinic toured four villages and provided health check and medical treatment for over 120 outpatients.
There are many villages located very far from any health institute. When we visited these villages, we met many pregnant women who had never attended antenatal clinic before. We did basic check-ups, distributed iron tablets and provided consultation services and medical advice.
Our objectives for this mobile clinic attempt were three-fold:
- To provide health care to economically or geographically vulnerable pregnant women
- To collect medical data while touring the villages, in order to help Graphis Health Center better assess the situation and needs of the local population.
- To establish an effective communication and collaboration network with Kompong Seila District’s Health Center, which is currently the largest public health institute in the district.
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