Sri Lanka: Primary Care Clinic Yayawatta
Many Diseases Treated: Q4 2017
March 08, 2018
Stephney Minerva Fernando
Summary of Activities
The clinic was open 10 days each month to provide free healthcare services to the community of Yayawatta and Seenimodera in Tangalle, Sri Lanka, and the surrounding villages and communities of Palapotha, Kadurupokuna, and Seenimodera. During the fourth quarter of 2017, we saw an average of 21.3 patients per day, treating a total of 638 patients.
Full Report
Results &
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
October 2017
210 Patients Treated
- 210 patients, 100 male and 110 female, were treated at the Real Medicine Clinic in October.
- There were 137 direct beneficiaries, and the most common illness was viral fever.
- 25 indirect beneficiaries were treated for viral fever. Direct and indirect beneficiaries received treatment for 6 types of diseases. The number of indirect beneficiaries was 73, and they came from Palapotha, Kadurupokuna, Seenimodera, and Moraketi-Ara to obtain treatment at the Real Medicine Clinic.
November 2017
212 Patients Treated
- 212 patients, 96 male and 116 female, were treated at the Real Medicine Clinic in November.
- The number of direct beneficiaries was 142, and the most common illness was viral fever due to the unexpected heavy rain and strong winds.
- 35 indirect beneficiaries were treated for viral fever. Direct and indirect beneficiaries received treatment for 7 types of diseases. The number of the indirect beneficiaries was 70, and they came from Palapotha, Kadurupokuna, Seenimodera, and Moraketi-Ara to obtain treatment at the Real Medicine Clinic.
- This free health clinic is entirely a gift from Real Medicine Foundation, which has a heart to help our communities that suffer from the tsunami’s destruction and from poverty.
December 2017
216 Patients Treated
- 216 patients, 102 male and 114 female, were treated at the Real Medicine Clinic in December
- The number of direct beneficiaries was 135, and the most common illness was viral infections due to the unexpected heavy rain, strong winds, and a chilly climate. Direct and indirect beneficiaries were treated for 7 types of diseases.
- 16 of the indirect beneficiaries were treated for viral infections; all the male patients had infections. They came from Palapotha, Kadurupokuna, Seenimodera, and Moraketi-Ara. A total of 81 patients came to the Real Medicine Clinic from these surrounding villages.
Background
& Objectives
Background
After completing Real Medicine’s immediate tsunami relief efforts at the Mawella Camp Clinic, a second clinic was opened in Yayawatta in October 2006. The clinic is open for 10 days each month to provide free healthcare services to the community of Yayawatta and Seenimodera in Tangalle, Sri Lanka, and the surrounding villages and communities of Palapotha, Kadurupokuna, and Seenimodera. With no resources to hire private transportation and no access to public transport, the clinic provides the only locally based medical care within the community, easily accessible and within walking distance of most villages and beneficiaries. To expand our reach to the surrounding communities, our primary health care clinic staff conducts off-site clinics at local schools and community centers to provide poor rural children with free checks-ups, and medicines.
Objectives
- Support the community with free, high quality healthcare services
- Approximately 94 tsunami-affected families and the surrounding communities in 4 villages: a population of 4,000.
- Help to create a healthy community, especially amongst the younger generation
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Numbers
Served
Direct Beneficiaries
Patients Served This Quarter
638 Patients
Success
Stories
Induwara
Stomach Wounds
INDUWARA, the 12-year-old boy standing next to his mother in the picture to the right, is a direct beneficiary and lives at Yayawatta. He had come to the Real Medicine Clinic with repeated abdominal pain and red-colored vomit. First I treated Induwara with antacids, but on his following visit, he was still showing the same symptoms. I then referred Induwara to the surgical ward in Tangalle Base Hospital, where medical authority conducted an oesophago-gastroduodenoscopy (OGD) examination, which showed that there are wounds in his stomach.
Induwara is receiving treatment for gastric ulcers, and he is now doing much better.
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