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The Kambia Appeal currently
has two goals:
1. To buy medical equipment for the newly
rehabilitated district hospital
Although the Kambia District Hospital
has now been rebuilt with help from the European
Union, and is treating patients once again, many
items of equipment and supplies are still needed,
including sterilisation units in the wards, mosquito
nets, bed linen and medicines. The KHA is
currently raising money to buy these important supplies.
To read more about this project click
here.
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We
are grateful to the generous support of the Constance
Green Foundation and De La Rue plc
for supporting our Medical
Equipment appeal. |
2. To improve the health of women in the Kambia
District.
Sierra Leone has one of the highest number of women
dying during pregnancy and childbirth in the world.
Improving the health of mothers in Kambia not only ensures the health of individual women but
also improves the long-term health of their
families. And a healthy family has a better chance
of becoming a more prosperous family.
To read more about this project click
here.
What our work helps to provide
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A programme of Safe Motherhood.
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Vital equipment and supplies for the
hospital and rural medical clinics.
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Essential maternity medicines and
drugs.
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Training to increase the number of
qualified midwives providing antenatal care and
assistance at births.
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Free emergency obstetric surgery for
all mothers if required. At present this is provided
by MSF (Médecins sans
Frontieres)
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The provision of equipment for a dedicated
maternity unit.
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Vehicles to ensure that mothers have
access to transportation to the nearest medical
facility.
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A radio link between health
facilities in the district.
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Scholarships for training Community
Health Officers. (Click
here for more information)
Costs
It costs
£8.50 for one hundred injections of
lifesaving maternity drugs.
£70 for a mother to have an emergency
caesarean - a procedure which is likely to save her life
and the life of her child. Thanks to MSF, at present this is provided free of charge.
£200 to equip one midwife with a delivery
kit which will last for a year.
£1,600 to enable a radio link to be
installed between a rural clinic and the district
hospital.
£20,000 buys a four-wheel-drive ambulance
like the one below.
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