NUTRITION REHABILITATION UNIT ( NURU )

NUTRITION REHABILITATION UNIT  ( NURU )

With Funds from different private Donors we were able to improve the supply of High Energy - Protein Diet for our malnourished Children. We supply for each of them daily cow’s milk according to their body weight , we bought rice after the harvest to store it for use in the NURU. Special thanks for Family  member of smith for his support of 313,320.00 to NURU Children .

STATISTICS.

Total Admissions          51      among this Deaths were                   -      7

. Under weight                7                                     Death                  -              0

. Marasmus                    17                                     Death                  - 3

. Kwashiorkor                18                                    Death                  -              4

. Marasmic - kwashiokor  9                                    Death                  - 0         

 

MENTAL HEALTH CARE.

  According to the aim or element of Primary  Health Care which says reduce mentally ill cases in the Community .Our Psychiatric Unit tried as much to reduce the number of Psychiatric ill patient in the Community through objectives set . Our aim was to improve quality of life of mentally ill patient in our catchment area. Since we have started running Psychiatric Project at  our Hospital People improved awareness about mental illness that people get cured although the number of new cases increased day to day also those who were on treatment for long period reduced most of the Psychiatric complications and some get cured .  Becauses drugs always was available with affordable price.

Therefore through FCMS donation helped much to enable us to run Psychiatric Unit that is :-

1.   Salaries for full-time person

2.   Buying drugs

3.   Organizing local seminar

4.   Lunch allowance during home visiting

So we insist to continue with the Project as the people are aware of it and they utilizes it.

 

AIDS CONTROL PROGRAMME

Emphasis was on the Various approaches for the prevention of HIV spread. The Emphasis was in the form of Education, counseling and supplying condoms Mobilised by GTZ beya Region. Since  2001, Axieus Organisation from America with its Office at Mbeya Regional Hospital tries to approach strongly the Community on the whole Project of IV/AIDS.

They have done Training of some of our Staff on Voluntary counseling test and Home based Health Care, and even they supply essential tools or instruments for service provision at our Hospital  helping the Community to reach the availability of the proper health Service.

The  Itete  AIDS Control Programme was started in  1991

The aim was to combat the HIV/AIDS infection in the Hospital Service area and to deal with HIV - Positive patients both in the Hospital and outside the  Hospital.  The

Programme started with the possibility of HIV-TESTING Including pre and post test counseling.   Later in 1993 the Home Based Care was established.

Preventive HIV/AIDS Education was also given to most of the  Villages, Primary Schools and Secondary Schools . In the  year  2003, we would like to thank Grace Mbekem for Axious and Florence Mwakanyamale for GTZ, for doing a Nice job of 

supervision and for support of Laboratory Equipments and Reagent and for Elisa Test Receiving specimens, and results Returning it back at prompt time.

 

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

INTRODUCTION.

Good Health is a major resource for Socio - Economic life. In our Konde Diocese - Itete Lutheran Hospital, PHC is  a continuing health process, a component of 

Fundamental Human rights and a basic need for every one fortunately our people in the Community accept and try to participate in their process. The PHC Elements are being implemented well. We work as  a team under the PHC umbrella tricoporation.

OBJECTIVES.

·        Provision of continuity of PHC in our catchment are and beyond.

·        To encourage individual families full participation in promoting good Health care to all.

·        To improve the living standards of the Villages, The Communities, should enable to identify and  prioritize their major Problems and to find possible solutions.

 

ACTIVITIES.

·        Education and supervision of the their Health Committees work

·        Alerting  and encouraging the Community about the importance of attending.

Reproductive  and Child Health Clinics.

·        Encouraging on income Generating activities to raise up socio -Economy

·        Hygiene and disease control.

·        Mobile Clinics - Reproductive and Child Health psychiatry , Eye

 

PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED.

·        There is No Diesel support from DMO for Transport in Mobile Clinics - few Clinics are  closed  due to fuel problem.

·        Poor Social Economic status of  the Community

·        Inadequate Education on Health care.

 

FUTURE PLAN.

·        Communication by  DMO so that can support for Mobile Clinic travel fuel and lunch for staff.

·        To continue Establishing and encouraging the Community to participate fully in their Health Developments