Sri Lanka: Primary Care Clinic Yayawatta

Most Common Illness Treated at Clinic is Viral Fever: Q1 2017

May 01, 2017

Stephney Minerva Fernando

Sri Lanka Initiative Reports

A trainee nurse of Dr. Chamal’s observing at Real Medicine Clinic

Program Update

RMF’s Presence

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.

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.

A total of 628 patients were treated at the Real Medicine Clinic during this reporting period.

A young mother with her sons

January 2017

218 patients, 94 male and 124 female, were treated at the Real Medicine Clinic in January.

25% of the patients were treated for infectious diseases
25% of the patients were treated for viral fever
15% were treated for joint pain
10% were treated for skin diseases
10% were treated for ischemic heart disease
10% were treated for hypertension
5% were treated for diarrhea.

There were 139 direct beneficiaries, and the most common illness was viral fever.

February 2017

211 patients, 96 male and 115 female, were treated at the Real Medicine Clinic in February.

50% of the patients were treated for viral fever
20% were treated for arthritis
10% were treated for hypertension
10% were treated for gastritis
10% were treated for chest infection

The number of direct beneficiaries was 138.

March 2017

214 patients, 94 male and 120 female, were treated at the Real Medicine Clinic in March.

50% of the patients were treated for viral fever
20% were treated for heart diseases
10% were treated for joint pain
10% were treated for hypertension
10% were treated for abdominal pain and gastritis

There were 139 direct beneficiaries from Yayawatta who received treatment, and 75 indirect beneficiaries obtained medication.

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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.