Mother health
In order to improve prospects for the mother and her unborn child, health-care professionals, particularly those who specialize in obstetrics, take the following steps:
▪ They review the patient’s medical history and perform an examination to determine risk and forestall complications that may involve the mother or her developing baby.
▪ They may take blood and urine samples to check for such problems as anemia, infection, Rh incompatibility, and disease. The latter may include diabetes, rubella, sexually transmitted diseases, and kidney disease, which can elevate blood pressure.
▪ When advisable and acceptable to the patient, they may recommend vaccinations for such things as influenza, tetanus, and Rh incompatibility.
▪ They may also recommend vitamin supplements, especially folic acid. When doctors identify the risks associated with individual pregnancies and take the needed precautions—or help the mother to do so—they enhance the prospects of a positive outcome for her and her unborn baby
Mothers in good health are babies in good health; African Refugee Council team is in treatment of pregnant women by offering Tetanus vaccination during prenatal consultations
The east of Democratic Republic of the Congo is full of active armed groups which make the population more vulnerable. Pregnant Women and Children are more affected, during the journeys some pregnant women abort while on the run and they do not have an appropriate center for their care. Other pregnant women do not have medical monitoring of the progress of their pregnancy( prenatal consultants , vaccination, treatment of infections during pregnancy, ultrasound monitoring of fetal well-being) all because of the precarious situation of travel said to repeated clashes since 1994.
Our medical team provide medical assistance and follow up of mothers during pregnancy.
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Children health
Children are the more impacted with consequences of wars and more children are born with neonatal diseases, newborns and infants while they are in vulnerable or internal displaced families for that they do not benefit from medical follow-up and treatment. In several displaced persons camps in all provinces of the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, children are victims of contagious diseases such as scabies, measles, scarlet fever, chickenpox. Other suffer from acute or a chronic respiratory infections( bronchitis, infants bronchiolitis) and many families are unable to pay for medical consultations, thousands of children die of malnutrition following a lack of insufficient or not diversified. In many villages and in many displaced camps many families do not have access to nearby sources of drinking water and for this reason the highest number of diarrhea infections among is registered.
Providing good health and taking care of infants and children is one of theof the our objectives we take care of children from 0 to 5 years old . Apart from that we provide primary medical assistance to children under 15 years old
NUTRITION
The repeated war and the promiscuity of families in the territory of RUTSHURU has socio-economic consequences on the lives of women and children. Malnutrition is the most frequent problem encountered in children under 5 years old. This is how the ARC dispatched its medical team to respond to this nutritional and health emergency which has arisen in this territory. This medical assistance intervened in the health zone of BAMBO where for 250 children who were consulted, we noted 145 children or 58% who presented a problem of nutritional insufficiency of which 60 presented a co-infection with malaria.
Our team, despite the weak means in our possession, we helped this population in distress. The ARC and its medical team are launching an alert and asking for help from people of good will to respond effectively to this problem that this population has.
Our team is recording data for validation in BAMBO health zone during the distribution of BP 5 (RUTF)
Malaria
We are taking care of children suffering from malaria
Malaria is an acute febrile illness caused by plasmodium parasites, which are spread to human through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes and Africa is a continent which is more affected, Even that It is preventable and curable million of people die with it in Africa. Some population groups are at considerably risk of contracting malaria infants, children under 5 years old and women displaced while fleeing to look for shelter in areas where malaria transmission occurs, malaria, the most of population die with malaria are children under 5 years old. Although malaria can be deadly disease, illness and death from malaria can usually be prevented.
For that reason our psychologists and medical doctors are working hand in hand to help our brothers who have been displaced due to wars and different crisis who are suffering from malaria mostly infant and children under 5 years old. We provide nets to internally displaced, refugees displacement camps and those displaced people leaving in foster families to reduce the contamination rate.
We keep on looking for additional support to reach us to many persons and save their life.
Primary healthcare to refugees and vulnerable
When crisis heat in a given area a potential numbers of population is wounded in the war, some of them die because they don't have money that can allow them to access to medicine treatment. some of refugees or internal displaced trample mines or are wounded by bombs.
How we help
African Refugee Council sends a medical team immediately in the field so that they take care of those who need our help and we support and work with local health centers to provide medical assistance to vulnerable people who was been wounded while running. Most of time it is not easy to provide those assistance because of impracticable road in those cases we send our medical team by motor bikes so that we may save live of our brother and sisters, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, and friends who are in the need. For us saving lives of others is more important for that reason we are ready to go anywhere even in areas which are difficult to reach.
Mobile clinic
We bring mobile clinics everywhere people need our help and we recognize that they are far from a health centers. Those mobile clinics help us to reach and help many patient by time.Sometimes we are obliged to work 24h/24 so that we may help and intervener in all emergencies cases in refugee camps.
Read more about Judith Ntamahungiro
Judith Ntamahungiro is an internally displaced children coming from Tongo village, she is suffering from Conjoctivis or pink eye and at the same time she has malaria. While running her mother don't took anything even many, she said: " The war was burn when I was with my family in the field, I didn't get time to take anything in the house, I left everything in the house even money. When my daughter Judith became ill I thought that it was the end and I spend 2 days sleeping out side without hope because I knew my son could die, thanks to God, I saw doctors who came in the camp and they treat my son that was the answer of my prayers.
Read more about Esther Uwineza Story
Esther Uwineza is a displaced young girl displaced from Kitshanga and come to take shelter in a hosting family in Mugunga, she lost some family member including her mother and one young girl. Esther's family members who rescue from the war leaves differently some in different refugee camps and others in hosting families. She is suffering from Osteomyelitis and a psychological disorder she made 2 weeks without medical assistance due to lack of money. One of her friend informed her about our medical assistance programs in displaced camp, when she arrived we ushered her and show her love and build a friendship with her, we treat her and give her smile once again. We didn't treat her only but we provide psychological assistance to her one of things which she needed to have. She says after being cured: "I didn't know if you could accept to provide me medical assistance. When I entered in the tent and meet with doctor and the first thing which I told my fried Esperance was to get back home, but doctors ushered us and spend much time of talking with me. Every days when I came for the medical treatments they discussed with me, they was interested personally with me. One of things which I can not forget is to remember how they want to know more about my life. I don't know how to tanks your organization, thank you, thank you, thank you for all that you did for me it is God who will pay you."