Initiative: Healthcare Services
Need
When your town center doesn't have a pharmacy or even a doctor to care for minor ills and spills—the great health challenges such as childbirth, a broken limb, appendicitis or pneumonia can have tragic outcomes. Unfortunately, illness, disease, and death are harsh realties where poverty lives. Where jobs are scarce or pay is low, families are forced to choose between food and healthcare. Waterborne diseases. Malnutrition and starvation. Repeat infections of the skin, intestines and lungs. Eye and mouth diseases. These are the enemies that International Aid fights, by providing basic healthcare services.
The incidence of unintentional, non-fatal, penetrating wounds represents 45 of every 1,000 persons injured annually. A great many of those injured will die of untreated wounds or infection.
Solution
For many villages, their first pharmacy arrives in a box from International Aid. Adults experience their first health physicals in International Aid clinics. Vitamins handed out by International Aid's many Faith and Agency Partners curb malnutrition. Hospitals, clinics, orphanages, and villages benefit from International Aid basic health services including: vaccinations, pre-natal care, women and children's health, vision screening, and nutrition—as well as access to medicine and supplies. Based in clinic settings or as rural outreach, International Aid supports delivery of the basic health supplies and services that we in the U.S. often take for granted.
