Basic medical laboratory for rural health clinic

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Basic medical laboratory for rural health clinic

Summary

Karing for Kids Nepal operates a Mother and Child Health Clinic (MCH-Clinic) in the mountain communities of Rasuwa, Nepal. This project will establish a basic medical laboratory within the clinic.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $790 was raised for this project.

Received $790 from 7 donations from people like:

Charese

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The MCH-Clinic provides basic medical services to 7,000 people in the remote Tamang villages of Gatlang, Goljung, and Chilime. These communities suffer from health problems associated with crippling poverty, such as diarrhea, worm infestation, malnutrition, acute respiratory infections, and tuberculosis. A basic medical lab would have a significant positive impact on our ability to more accurately diagnose and treat these common ailments.

Activities

Renovate the facility (ceiling, walls, floor, and lighting), acquire furniture, equipment, and supplies, install the new equipment, support annual costs for one year

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $790

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $790. The original project funding goal was $7,968.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Significantly enchanced capacity to serve critical health needs, exams (blood, urine, stool, acid-fast bacillus, pregnancy, etc.), diagnosis (gastro-intestinal, anemia, kidney problems, diabetes), treatment (medicinal & educational)

Project Message

In the entire Rasuwa district, population 140,000, there are no laboratory services. Accuracy in diagnosing illness will increase a thousand-fold with these basic lab services.
- Scott MacLennan, International Director