Prof. Dr. André Mariz de Almeida, along with Dr. Catarina Martinho and a multidisciplinary crew of well being professionals, are coordinating and organizing a humanitarian mission in Kenya.
The humanitarian mission, which is able to happen in the course of the month of August, will probably be carried out in partnership between the Egas Moniz Faculty of Well being and Science, the biggest Well being College in Portugal, and two NGOs based mostly in Kenya, ADDHU and the Lion Conservation Fund.
The aim of the mission is to supply humanitarian assist, fundamental life assist and first oral well being care for kids in two areas: Samburu and Nairobi in Kenya. From Lisbon, the mission will carry varied oral well being supplies, akin to toothbrushes, toothpaste and dental supplies, which is able to permit the event of preventive oral well being actions and the remedy of kids by performing dental therapies; and medical supplies, akin to medicines, medical dispensary provides and first help supplies, which is able to assist the inhabitants of a number of villages in northern Kenya, within the Samburu area, across the medical dispensary. To deal with the starvation disaster within the Horn of Africa, the mission will even take meals, akin to tremendous meals sheets and power crops to fight the malnutrition discovered on this area.
Within the first section of the mission, in Samburu, the work will concentrate on 5 villages situated across the native medical dispensary constructed within the middle of Samburu County. Concrete aims embody the set up of a properly close to the medical dispensary and water tanks in every of the 5 villages; distribution of fundamental humanitarian help, particularly survival rations, rice, flour; offering fundamental well being and oral well being care, in addition to selling well being literacy for these answerable for every village; to make the medical dispensary created within the central Samburu area a pretty middle for well being, life and hope, offering it with medical supplies, consumables and medicines.
In Nairobi, and within the second section of the mission, in collaboration with the Society for the Safety of Human Rights, the work will probably be carried out on the Wanalea Reception Heart – based by the Portuguese Laura Vasconcellos 15 years in the past, after the Kenyan civil warfare. The orphanage is now answerable for round 35 youngsters and likewise for breaking cycles of poverty within the lives of a whole bunch of kids since its institution. It was on this orphanage that, for the previous 10 years, Prof. Dr. André Mariz de Almeida shared a mission of social accountability in well being and oral well being. At this stage, efforts will probably be centered on persevering with to watch the 35 youngsters by way of dental remedy; work on oral well being and normal well being literacy; consider the impact of oral well being coaching and fluoride utility on colleges in a Soweto slum; treating deciduous and everlasting enamel of kids within the slums, utilizing restorative supplies.
To efficiently full this mission, supplies are wanted from three areas: medical materials – stethoscopes, blood strain meters, otoscopes, varied non-consumable medical supplies; medicines – antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, analgesics, anesthetics, vaccines, amongst others; multivitamins and serum glucose; fundamental meals: high-calorie meals to be used in catastrophe conditions; materials for water purification and storage – eg. purification tablets, water storage tanks and water extraction pumps for wells. All these supplies are essential to rebuild villages within the Samburu area and to keep up the lifetime of a inhabitants of as much as 5 thousand folks.
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