Background
According to the most recent data, the number of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants increased slightly in Serbia, with 4,273 counted on December 24, 2017. Of these, around 3,999 were accommodated in one of five asylum centers or thirteen reception centers, with Obrenovac Transit Centre being one of the largest and accomodating around 700 people.
RMF Serbia’s mobile clinic is stationed in this shelter, where our team operates 7 days of the week, from 3:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The RMF mobile medical team, consisting of two doctors, one cultural…
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I heard about the Real Medicine Foundation and that they would be needing help in Ahmedabad, Gujarat through a friend of a friend. Always looking for any unique volunteer opportunity, I jumped to the occasion. They needed me to assist patients and their families that came to the Civil Hospital, a local government hospital, for advanced medical care. Even though I had vast experience at hospitals in the United States, I had never before been to a hospital at India. I was only vaguely familiar with how healthcare worked…
I got to know Señora Maria over her prescribed 5 day course of antibiotics. Everyday she’d shuffle in around 2pm, hand over her prescription and give one large sigh before I gave her an injection into her hip. Afterwards, we’d have a little chat about the importance of getting the whole course of antibiotics. I always fear that patients won’t come back because of the pain. On the contrary, I’ve found the patients here to be very diligent on coming in day after day, whether for an injection or excruciating wound care. When I asked her about this,…
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photo: Naiara with Anandini
photo: Shakuntala before surgery
photo: eV Renewables´s staff members working at the Bhil Academy
photo: Caitlin, and the mothers and children at the Malnutrition clinic
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photo: Pankaj walking
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Back in April I blogged about an HIV+ pregnant woman who came to talk about terminating a pregnancy. She had already lost 4 children, still births, before she was diagnosed HIV, and then saw no hope in this 5th pregnancy. When she came in however, she was already past 3 months pregnant, too late for an abortion. We counseled the family that its possible for an HIV mother to have an HIV- child, 99% positive actually, if the family follows the proper Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission protocol (PMTCT). I’ve never seen someone more relieved and hopeful…
photo: Maria and Pankaj
This is a post for my mother. Everyone who hears that Real Medicine Foundation is working in Pakistan wonders about the security. All we hear about Pakistan in the media is about the violence and War on Terror. I have to admit, despite being a seasoned traveler, as a blonde American I was a little worried about my trip to Pakistan to visit RMF’s clinic in Balakot, KPK (formerly NWFP), especially when blast went off at a famous Sufi shrine in Lahore a day before my arrival. After two weeks in Pakistan however, I have to say that…
Today I had the privilege of visiting RMF’s Clinic in Talhatta, Balakot, KPK (formerly NWFP). I have to admit I didn’t quite believe the RMF team when they said that we’re the only health care provider in Balakot, the valley worst hit by the 2005 earthquake and with a population of over 120,000 people. While I had no doubt that RMF must be doing amazing work in Balakot, I assumed there had to be other NGOs providing health care. Hadn’t the whole world run up to the mountains of NWFP after the earthquake? Doesn’t USAID give billions to…
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