Health care for tribes around Lake Eyasi (Tanzania)

  1. Posted on Tuesday 5 April 2011 - 16:46
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    Pictures and text: Margret van Gaalen, Malaria No More! Netherlands
    The Foundation for African Medicine and Education (FAME) runs an outpatient clinic in Karatu that is visited by people from the entire region when they need medical care.
    Deze bezoekende patienten behoren tot de Datoga stam.
    In order to supply inhabitants of remote rural areas with public healthcare, Doctor Frank Artress travels 1 x per month with his mobile clinic and a team of Tanzanian staff and (American and Tanzanian) volunteers to remote areas to the south of Karatu. It is a difficult 5 hour drive to Gidamilanda near Lake Eyasi where FAME sets up a registration desk, two  doctors room, a lab and a pharmacy in a couple of hours in an empty government building. The African Culture Group Sangoma traveld a few days in advance to inform the local communities per megaphone in the tribal languages about the upcoming arrival of the outpatient mobile clinic. From all directions people come walking and FAME treats 100 patients per day, from registration to clinical diagnosis and lab research, test diagnosis and emission of medicines. During the many moments of waiting, Sangoma educates the patients on the basis of dance, music and drama about a.o. the importance of good hygiene and how to prevent diseases such as AIDS and malaria. A visit to the doctor is not for free. Because the Hadzabe don’t have money, FAME buys necklaces in exchange for a visit to the doctor. Diagnosed diseases vary from STD to brucellosis, TB and malaria. Volunteers from the local tribes help out by translating messages from the tribal language to and from Swahili or English.

    Malaria No More! Netherlands supports FAME’s mobile clinic financially. Without this support, the inhabitants of remote areas in Tanzania would be without public health care. More information about Malaria No More! Netherlands is to be found at en.malarianomore.nl where you can also see videos of FAME and their project with the mobile clinic. 

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  1. Posted on Tuesday 13 December 2011 04:31
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    This reminds me of another group of doctors, the doctors without borders. They travel to distant lands to administer aid to people in rural areas. These doctors really do care more about saving human lives than lining their pockets with money. They have my respect!
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  2. Posted on Tuesday 27 December 2011 08:30
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    Great reading the post.The health care of the metformin dosage people are continuously monitored is a great work.The people of Africa are the vulnerable section who need lot of care and protection.I liked the pictures.
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    This is good news for those people living in remote areas specially the indigenous people.

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  8. Posted on Friday 04 May 2012 10:27
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    Thanks for such an interesting article here. Health care in African countries is a very important thing if not the most important one. Some people can't get enough health services that's why various diseases are dominant there. Let's just hope that we will be able to help them enough and those tribes will get what they really need. Thanks for those good people who are doing this great job.
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