Sri Lanka: Primary Care Clinic Yayawatta
Q3, 2015: Steadfast Care for the Community
November 11, 2015
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
Full Report
Results &
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
July 2015
Treatments Provided
1. Viral Influenza
2. Hypertension
3. Rheumatoid Arthritis
4. Gastroenteritis
5. Ischemic Heart Disease
6. Skin Diseases
7. Other Diseases
In addition, 6 mothers received oral contraceptives in the month of July.
August 2015
Treatments Provided
1. Viral Influenza
2. Worm Infestation
3. Rheumatoid Arthritis
4. Hypertension
5. Ischemic Heart Disease
In addition, 6 mothers received oral contraceptives in the month of August.
September 2015
Treatments Provided
1. Fever
2. Hypertension
3. Viral Influenza
4. Rheumatoid Arthritis
5. Worm Infestation
6. Skin Diseases
In addition, 7 mothers received oral contraceptives in the month of September.
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 third quarter of 2015, we saw an average of 21 patients per day, treating a total of 645 patients.
Success
Stories
Mrs. Aroshi
Mrs. Aroshi is a very young mother. She is 18 years old, and her baby son is 4 weeks old. Her husband is a fisherman. The family lives in Yayawatta, and they are direct beneficiaries of RMF’s Real Medicine Clinic.
Mrs. Aroshi came to the Yayawatta Real Medicine Clinic to get some advice and treatment for her infected breast. She had visited the hospital in Tangalle, and the senior surgeon had opened and cleaned the ulcer and prescribed the required medication for her. The breast, however, was still infected, and the young mother was in a lot of pain when she visited the clinic. She feeds her baby son with the uninfected breast. We referred Mrs. Aroshi to the hospital’s surgical ward for treatment; she had previously not been given a strong antibiotic, which is needed to heal the ulcer.
July 2015
218 patients, 97 male and 121 female, were treated at the Yayawatta Real Medicine Clinic in July.
- 20% of the patients were treated for viral influenza,
- 20% were treated for hypertension,
- 15% were treated for rheumatoid arthritis,
- 15% were treated for gastroenteritis,
- 10% were treated for ischemic heart disease,
- 10% were treated for skin diseases, and
- 10% were treated for various other diseases.
There were 139 direct beneficiaries. The majority of direct beneficiaries received treatment for viral influenza.
16 indirect beneficiaries were treated for viral influenza. Direct and indirect beneficiaries were treated for 7 types of diseases, a total of 79 patients were indirect beneficiaries.
August 2015
217 patients, 102 male and 115 female, were treated at the Yayawatta Real Medicine Clinic in August.
- 40% of the patients were treated for viral influenza,
- 20% (mostly children) were treated for worm infestation,
- 15% were treated for hypertension,
- 15% were treated for rheumatoid arthritis, and
- 10% were treated for ischemic heart disease.
There were 137 direct beneficiaries. The number of indirect beneficiaries was 80, and patients came from Palapotha, Kadurupokuna, and Seenimodera to receive treatment at our 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.
September 2015
214 patients were treated in September.
- 35% of the patients were treated for fever,
- 15% were treated for hypertension,
- 15% were treated for rheumatoid arthritis,
- 15% were treated for viral influenza,
- 10% were treated for worm infestation, and
- 10% were treated for skin diseases.
There were 136 direct beneficiaries from Yayawatta who received treatment, and 78 indirect beneficiaries obtained the medication. Direct and indirect beneficiaries received treatment for 6 types of diseases.
28 of the indirect beneficiaries received treatment for fever. They came from Palapotha, Kadurupokuna, and Seenimodera, and a total of 78 patients were from the surrounding villages.
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