Maua Methodist Hospital

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1 Community Health Department Volume II, Issue 3 April - May, 2012 Maua Methodist Hospital Kenya Factoids Population: About 41 million Male: 50.2% Female: 49.8% 0-14 years: 42.2% years: 55.1% 65 years and over: 2.7% Median Age: 19.2 years Size of Kenya: 580,367 sq. km / 224,081 sq. mi. Smaller than France Larger than Spain Twice the size of UK About the size of Nevada Major Cities and population: Nairobi: 3.37 million Mombasa: 966,000 Currency: Shilling - currently $1 = Ksh. GDP: 83 rd of 227 countries: behind Guatemala and Cuba Literacy Rate: (Age 15+ can read and write) 85.1% Medical: Doctors per 1,000 people: 0.14 % of GDP for health care: 12.2% AIDS Prevalance Rate: 6.2% - 11 th highest in the world Number living with AIDS: 1.2 MIllion (2009 est.) Life Expectancy: 59.5 years PIONEER INTERN DOCTORS COMPLETE TRAINING Government pledges to send 8 interns doctors for 2012 Maua Methodist Hospital (MMH) is a mission hospital which has grown and developed over a period of 84 years. It has 275 In-patient beds and provides a wide range of Out-patient services and a Community outreach program for catchment population of over 800,000 in the greater Meru North district area. According to CHAK, mission health facilities provide over 40% of medical care in Kenya. Mission hospitals operate with no Government funding except where there are seconded Doctors. However, MMH has a very high standing as a teaching hospital for both registered nurses and other medical staff. This has now been recognised by the Kenyan Government who now pays for 8 Medical Interns to be trained at this Centre of Excellence after many years of struggle to qualify as an intern training centre by training specialist Doctors (consultants) we are so thankful to the world church office (WCO) for establishing an endowment fund to train the doctors after they have served for 3 years in the hospital. This has Maua Methodist Hospital Savings and Credit Cooperative Society held its 18 th Annual General Meeting on 31/3/ members attended. SACCO ANNUAL MEETING In This issue Maua Methodist Hospital really helped the hospital to retain the doctors On Thursday 24 th Kenya Medical Practitioners and dentist Board Internship assessment committee visited the hospital and assessed the internship training and the team expressed satisfaction with the quality of intern training and hinted that 8 more will be placed in the hospital in the year The pioneer group of 4 interns completed their 12 months training this weekend. The new group of 8 interns may report to the hospital any time. On 30 th March, 2012 the hospital hosted a fair well party for the first group of medical intern Doctors who have successfully completed 12 months training. Being the pioneer group in the hospital, the hospital was pleased that they were patient as we implemented the new program. The doctors appreciated the support they had received from the trainers and hospital staff which contributed to their successful completion. Members adopted the amended by laws and replaced long serving board member (17yrs) who had worked in the hospital but retired from the hospital last year, See SACCO on Page 3 Pioneer Doctors...Pg. 1 Clinic at Kinanduba..Pg. 2 Nursing Department Pg. 3 ECD School Pg.4 SACCO Meeting... Pg. 2 International Partnership Pg. 2 Sanitary Pads Pg. 3 P.O. Box 63, Maua, Kenya An agency of the Methodist Church in Kenya Phone: info@mckmauahospital.org

2 MAUA METHODIST HOSPITAL COMMUNITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT OPEN S A MOBILE OUTREACH CLINIC AT KINANDUBA METHODIST CHURCH (JACOBS WELL) --- Evangelist John, founded the church at Kinanduba in February during the visit to the community of Kinanduba he found a community that had not been evangelized and were eager to start a congregation. A few members began to meet under the tree near a well where rogue buffalo had attacked a pregnant mother. Since the church began here at the well, it was nicknamed Jacobs well! Our vision for this community is to establish a mission School that will provide basic education for the very young children in the community, provide primary health care services to the population, and an agriculture demonstration area on the church grounds. All of this is supporting a vibrant congregation and will provide the spiritual nourishment to the members. We plan to empower the community by equipping their own resource persons -Community Health Workers that will be trained to provide on site first aid care. They will be equipped with a mobile phone to contact the hospital or community health department contact person for quick response to their health need. Currently the outreach clinic is held once per month but as the time goes, the community will require a dispensary which will provide both preventive and curative services 7 days per week with residential service providers. We will provide updates on this exciting outreach from the Hospital in following newsletters Jacobs Well where the church began in February of 2011 Prevention of malaria is key to the health of this community The community appreciated the hospital and church for bringing the medical clinic to this very remote area. Sr. Janet munene dispensing the medicines at the clinic INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION/PARTNERSHIP MMH SACCO has been selected among four in the country to closely work with an international consulting firm known as Procasur Corporation in assisting various African countries come up various initiatives/ innovations to help low and middle income countries Team from Rwanda learn about cooperatives from MMH Savings and credit cooperative society New Church where the clinic is taking place to alleviate poverty in their respective countries. This Page 2 James attending a Child at the clinic during the launch program also strengthens the cooperative movement. Teams from Rwanda, Malawi, Madagascar, and Mozambique have visited the visited the Maua Methodist Hospital SACCO to see first hand the programs, policies and practices that have made this an outstanding institution. The team from Team learns Product development duringa Rwanda was especially field school given by the members interested in how this cooperative movement could be started in their country. Continued on page 3, Partnership

3 Continued from Page 2, Partnership Visit to dairy farmer funded by MMH SACCO Cooperative empowers the poor in the community MMH SACCO holds host to Rwandese cooperators Stanley meets, Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi team NURSING DEPARTMENT TAKING TEAM BUILDING AND EMPOWERMENT FOR NURSES AT THE NEXT LEVEL---- On March 27 th Nurses from Maua Methodist hospital different units assembled to Maua basin hotel for one day team building and empowerment seminar, a total of (21) participants attended, these included Unit Heads, Senior Nursing Officers and their deputies, Community Health and Palliative, Quality Improvement officer. On her opening remarks, Sr. Mary Gitari, Nursing Officer in charge thanked the nurses for making arrangement to attend, she introduced Lauren a mission volunteer who will work with the nursing department for the next three months on different issues, she thanked the management for their support to the nursing services in the midst of nurses crisis in the hospital for the last three years. She explained that the purpose of team building exercise was basically to foster and create awareness on the our team s spirit and reinforce commitment to the teams shared objectives and goals, she told them that this too would improve their interpersonal relationships which will help the team create strong bond together, after this all the nurses in the hospital will undergo the same activities--- one of the illustrations to enhance team Nursing officer In charge; Sr. Gitari facilitate explaining an icebreaker activity. Mrs. Mwiti, Lauren, Sabera Participating in the team building F. Gitonga, J. Munene, Mrs. Mutwiri Problem solving activities CEO MALUTHA SPEAKS TO THE NURSES Mr. Mailutha while speaking to the nurses, he told them that he was very much aware that there is no hospital without nurses. He told nurses that he was quite pleased with the commitment that the nurses have made for the welfare of the pa ents and clients. The CEO assured nurses that he will support them to provide pa ents quality nursing care The team building workshop was a ended by senior nursing officers, Unit heads, and depu es, and others. Deputy nursing officer and the Nursing officer in charge SACCO, continued from page 1. Stanley Gitari was elected as the chairman of the Sacco Three Board directors were retiring but legible for re election; the following were reelected unopposed Mr. Stanley Gitari, Mr. John Ntaragwi and kimathi Page 3 NEW VOLUNTEER AT MAUA METHODIST HOSPITAL Lauren (USA) volunteer arrived in the hospital on March 25; She will be in the hospital for three months- working with the nursing department on different ac vi es including documen ng the orienta on booklet for the hospital. Lauren Lewis is a volunteer from the Heritage Chris an Church in Westerville Ohio.. She is currently doing job analysis and personnel audit. We are grateful that she volunteering to do this job to enhance job performance (supervisory) new comers included Mr Matheta competed with for chairman. The Sacco declared divided of 15% FOSA, VAN and Computers----

4 MAKING RE USABLE SANITARY PADS FOR THE ORPHANED GIRLS IN MAUA COMMUNITY Our Peace Corps volunteer Jill pottratraz trained girls on how to make re usable pads, 14 girls (TOTS) were trained on making reusable sanitary pads. The girls will train other peers. The training was facilitated by Jill an American Peace corp.providing re usable sanitary pads to orphan girls in the program. The biggest problem that faces orphan girls in Meru north District and poor girls is access to safe and clean sanitary towels, by providing these girls with re usable pads they will be able to stay in school. Orphans girls lacking pads fear to go to school because they don t want to be seen with cloths soiled and be embarrassed, instead they choose to stay at home when other children are learning until the periods are over- their guardians cannot afford to buy them sanitary pads when they have the monthly periods. We appeal to partners to support this initiative with cash or in kind to continue making these re usable pads for more orphans and other girls who continue to miss classes because there is nothing they can do. Reusable sanitary pads that the orphans have been trained to make. Trained girls holding a workshop for others TOTS demonstrate completed sanitary pads ECD PROJECT - A NEW SCHOOL Maua Methodist Hospital ECD project was started in Food and Nutrition Children were provided with 2010 with funding from USAID through partnership with porridge at 10 and lunch at 1pm. GRACE Africa. The Early Childhood Education centre Economic Empowerment Guardians were trained was located at Athiru Gaiti Location, Igembe south district on SILC (self Internal Lending Communities) whereby and worked with Maua Methodist Hospital community they contributed money and then loaned to each other health department as the project implementers. for them to start small Income Generating Activities. The funding by USAID was for three years but Child Protection G-r-a-c-e, Africa trained TOTs delayed and started a year later. The project phased out (training of Trainers) those later trained children on and ended funding by September 30, This project their rights and also their guardians. is so important because it is providing very essential early Psychosocial Support Grace Africa provided education for those orphans who would otherwise not be technical support in training TOTs who later trained able to get it. When the program started we found orphans members of the community and the guardians. as old as 9 years who had not attended the pre-school. Awareness on HIV/AIDs and care TOTs from the Currently the ECD centre is housed by a public primary community were trained and they have been creating school in Athiru Gaiti. The centre has got 90 Orphans and awareness to the community and forming groups in vulnerable Children (OVC) enrolled in the program and the community. the children are progressing on well in school. G.R.A.C.E Africa NPI Program (ECD Project) In the year 2010, 44 children graduated to class 1 and in Phased out in November G.R.A.C.E planned to December 2010 we recruited more children to replace the hold a dissemination meeting with NPI (New partners number to 90. In children graduated to class 1 and initiative) project implementers, beneficiaries and relevant the same number was replaced in December stakeholders that have been instrumental in supporting Whenever the children graduated to another class the activities of the project. The meeting was held in 25th and program doesn t leave the guardians behind. We continue to 29th November, 2011 at Sport view Kasarani hotel. The support them in various services that the program provided Purpose of the meeting was to share key achievements in the community. of the NPI project, lessons learned, identified gaps and Through partnership with G.R.A.C.E, Africa the ECD recommendations for future programming and the phase Project provided the following services: out plans. Page 4

5 ACHIEVEMENT The ECD project was designed to promote, provide and support quality, sustainable and holistic early childhood development for the orphaned children aged 3 years 7 years in Athiru Gaiti. This was to be achieved by providing access to quality training in ECD for teachers and care givers and also ensuring nutritional needs of children are met. Throughout the program we have achieved: 76 Children have graduated to class 1 and 90 are already at the centre GRACE Africa bought 20 milk goats for guardians as a sustainability purpose in their working group. Forma on of youth groups has helped crea ng awareness on HIV/AIDs in the community Health and Hygiene as been improved in the family level where the program supported Forma on of cell groups between guardians and orphans. This has helped the beneficiaries in sharing their daily experiences and the challenges that they face in taking care of the OVCs and the possible solu ons on the same. The cell groups are also taking a very vital role in having inter-home visits where they are helping each other in domes c cores i.e. lling of land, water and firewood fetching among other du es. CHALLENGES Long distances when carrying out home visits and while making field visits. Though we have to walk, it has taken us a longer period than expected to finish the exercise as expected. The community members has High interest and desire requesting for increased number of OVC recruitment into the program hence having difficult times in convincing them on program limitation. High expectation from the guardians The guardians expect much more support at the family level other than the current support from the program e.g. shelter, food and clothing considering their needs. Illiteracy and lack of information and communication in the community Lack of enough resources to feed the children at the ECD centre DEDICATION AND NAMING OF CLARK MCK ATHIRU GAITI PRE- SCHOOL Ed Clark arrived in Kenya on April 13 th, 2012 from US to attend a very special event on Saturday 14, 2012 in which the Methodist Church in Kenya, Athiru Gaiti Methodist church officially named the pre- school after Ed Clark. The church honored Mr Clark for his love to the orphans, vulnerable children and long term kind support for the school operations. Last year, the ECD program that was began 2010 in partnership with grace Africa NGO, funding was coming to an end by September 30 th, The Germantown mission team responded by providing initial CLARK MCK ATHIRU GAITI ECD PRE-SCHOOL financial support to continue the school running. After this, the school continued to support the salary of the teachers and providing the basic early childhood development education to 120 children and all the activities as outlined above. The Hospital management, the Church and the Community had good reason to sing and dance, during a very colorful celebration in which the ECD Pre- school was officially named: MR. CLARK Unveiled the plaque- Clark MCK Athiru Gaiti ECD Pre-school Dedicated to the glory of God and the beautiful Children of Kenya 14 th April, 2012 Page 5

6 Rev. Jacob Gituma dedicate the ECD pre- School I wish to thank Jill Pottratraz, Peace Corps Volunteer in the Hospital s Community Health Department who raised funds for the first classroom through her family and friends. Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church and First United Methodist Church High Point, NC and Germantown United Methodist Church, Germantown, TN, who built the second classroom and provided operational funding. The Bill and Cathy family. In addition, many Your monthly gift of $15 to this Advance Project saves the life of a poor child or orphan each year! This fund pays the medical bills of orphans, abandoned children and other poor children and patients. Without your gifts to this fund the hospital would not be able to continue to serve the needy. At least thirty percent of our patients cannot afford to pay their medical bills as they are Clark unveils the school plaque looking on Mr. Mailutha CEO,MMH and children MAUA HOSPITAL SERVICE FUND PICTURES WE LIKE: Clark MCK Athiru Gai ECD Pre-School. churches and individuals who have donated money or supported in one way other in making the is ECD Project successful, the church will recognize all the donors and will be listed in a memorial plaque to be set up in the school. We have no enough words to thank all those who have been supporting the hospital provide different programs in the community. children and families of subsistence farmers. This Advance Ministry is the most important support for the Hospital ministry here in Kenya. ** Write your support check to the UMC where you worship and put it in the collection plate with this note at the bottom on the note/memo line: Advance #09613A - Maua Hospital Service Fund Waiting to be seen at the clinic at Kinanduba Medical care has NEVER been this accessible Mosquito nets are given out at the clinic to the most vulnerable persons Page 6 Children being immunized who have NEVER been seen by a health care professional.