Mozambique: Mozambique Mobile Clinic Project
Network of Mobile Outreach for Remote Communities: December 2016
January 26, 2017
Summary of Activities
In 2008, RMF designed the first-ever Mobile Clinic for Mozambique, with financial support from Medical Mission International, in partnership with the Zambézia Provincial Directorate of Health (DPS), and with Vanderbilt University’s Friends in Global Health (FGH) as Implementing Partner. This Mobile Health Clinic is particularly valuable in reaching underserved and/or remote communities because it provides a versatile, flexible platform for primary healthcare services, education, and counseling.
RMF’s Mobile Clinic has been providing extensive services in some of the most remote areas in Zambézia Province. In subsequent years, based on the success and impact of this first Mobile Health Clinic, numerous other mobile clinics were built, providing a network of mobile outreach for some of the most remote areas of Mozambique.
Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD, Chief Manager, Friends in Global Health, LLC, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Global Health of Vanderbilt University, says:
The Mobile Clinic has been a ground-breaking innovation for Mozambique. We are very grateful for our partnership and we are proud to note that the RMF investment served as a pilot for the nationwide expansion of mobile units in one of the world’s least capacitated nations. We thank you, your staff and your donors most sincerely.
In June 2016, as a new RMF model to work directly with the Ministry of Health as Implementing Partner, RMF’s Founder and CEO, Dr. Martina Fuchs, handed this first Mobile Clinic over to Dr. Hidayat Kassim, Head of the Provincial Directorate of Health, Provincial Government of Zambézia. RMF will continue to support operations of the Mobile Clinic as it now supplements government health services in Zambézia, the most populous province of Mozambique.
Full Report
Results &
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Mission Accomplished
A Successful Partnership
Within the ambit of the partnership between the Provincial Directorate of Health of Zambézia and the partner RMF, the Provincial Directorate of Health of Zambezia (DPSZ) received the past month of June, the RMF Mobile Clinic removed from another district of the province after completion of its mission in that district.
The same Mobile Clinic has accomplished several activities of great value together with DPS’ programs of medical aid as well as programs of public health.
Community Outreach
Public Health Programs
Health fairs and mobile task force campaigns:
- HIV/AIDS counseling and volunteer testing
- Family planning
- Blood donation
- Health education and counseling: blood pressure measurement, glucose checks, pelvic exams
- Vaccinations in the District of Quelimane through the mobile task forces
- Medical attention and integrated health activities delivered at central and provincial public events
Health Fairs and Public Events
Benefiting and Affecting Lives
Results obtained in 9 mobile interventions:
- 670 patients tested for HIV/AIDS
- 720 new patients in family planning programs
- 287 blood donation units
- Approximately 3,000 blood pressure measurements
- More than 900 patients attended in several medical consultations delivered
Background
& Objectives
Background
RMF’s Mobile Clinic in Mozambique is a new model of healthcare provision for our organization, conceptualized to reach remote and rural communities with no prior access to health care. Since its inception in 2008, our Mobile Clinic has been hugely successful and remains the only mobile clinic in all of Mozambique. The clinic, a collaboration between RMF, Vanderbilt University’s Friends in Global Health, and Medical Mission International, is currently deployed in one of the most populous provinces of Mozambique, Zambézia Province, located in the central coastal region with a population of almost 4 million.
Objectives
- To improve the quality of life and provide access to health services, particularly access to maternal-child healthcare and anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and other diseases.
- To provide access to healthcare in remote areas of Zambézia Province, Mozambique.
- To reinforce the expansion of HIV care and treatment services initiated by the Zambézia Provincial Health Directorate (DPS), by providing temporary reinforcement in terms of staff, training, and space for peripheral health units initiating implementation of ART until such time as the DPS can organize the infrastructure and resources necessary for these sites to function independently.
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