Over the Christmas period I have been reading through the modular approach to Community Health Care that the team will be using on our visit to Freetown in March. I would like to thank 'Andrew' for the recent comment he made on the health care post dated 21 November, pointing our attention to an advert for the services offered by a native doctor in Mile 91, a Northern town which is 91 miles from Freetown and a major road junction. So many of these are covered in the manual and may come up as something that people want to talk about. Maybe a bit too graphic for a roadside display in the UK!
Christmas and babies go together, and it is of real concern that in Sierra Leone 1 in 8 women die in childbirth. In the developed world the figure is 1 in 4000. The film below points out that everyone in the country knows someone who has died in childbirth. Help and advice in this area could be a major topic when our team comes to do the needs assessment.
The film tends to suggest that the answer is more money going into the Health Service. This is on the macro development end of the scale, where governments or large businesses give aid. . We shall be working at the micro development end. This is good. Both sides of the partnership know each other and have built up a good relationship over the years. Local church is rooted in the community and has access to the poorest in society. With trust already there a structure of accountability is easy to establish and maintain.. Church culture should encourage honesty, openness and thought and concern for others. So we are not going to give money, but to share our knowledge, our time and concern. It can change a lot.
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