Sri Lanka: Primary Care Clinic Yayawatta
Closing out a Consistent Year of Outreach: Q4 2015
February 12, 2016
Summary of Activities
Project Objectives
- Support the community with free, high quality healthcare services
- Help to create a healthy community, especially amongst the younger generation
The clinic was 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.
Project Beneficiaries
- Community members in Yayawatta, who lost their livelihoods and loved ones in the tsunami
- Lower income families that live in the villages and communities surrounding Yayawatta.
- Approximately 4,000 people

Results &
ACCOMPLISHMENTS

October 2015
Treatments Provided
1. Fever and Cough
2. Rheumatoid Arthritis
3. Ischemic Heart Disease
4. Dermatomycosis
5. Gastritis
6. Other Diseases

November 2015
Treatments Provided
1. Fever
2. Rheumatoid Arthritis
3. Gastritis
4. Ischemic Heart Disease
5. Hypertension

December 2015
Treatments Provided
1. Viral Fever
2. Heart Diseases
3. Hypertension
4. Worm Infestation
5. Joint Pain
6. Surgical Cases

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
During the fourth quarter of 2015, they saw an average of 21 patients per day, treating a total of 651 patients.


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