This project aims to establish a ‘Family Healthcare Hub’ – a midwifery and children service centre to support family health. This will be situated in the village of Bomarni which is 25 miles from the nearest hospital and has a catchment area of 7,000 families.
We will utilise unused Rotary buildings which are situated near the dispensary and in an ideal accessible location for the village to host a maternity unit for normal births, as well as children heath service centre. The local dispensary is also in this compound and other buildings not being utilised can house a pharmacy, and a satellite health surgery which together forms the Family Health hub.
Our plan is to set up satellite surgeries within the village, which can feed into the main hub. This will enable families to access health care close to their homes and for midwifery care to be delivered in the homes of the pregnant women. When the distance to the hospital is far, women cannot access health services when they are desperately needed as they do not have money for transport. So, another aspect of our vision is to provide an ambulance service to transport women in need of urgent medical care to the hospital.
