Healthcare: Child Survival and Maternal Health
Over 700 villagers live in Samlout. Since the end of the civil war in 1979, Samlout commune lacked the health facilities and medical practitioners needed to ensure basic quality health services for a growing population. Inadequate private clinics operate in the area with poorly trained and non-licensed medical assistants. Misdiagnoses, poor quality medicines and no medical instruments are all central features of Samlout’s medical establishment.
MJP’s initiatives seek to bring high quality healthcare to all people in Samlout by building health centres and hospitals, providing medical staff training, supplying Samlout with proper medicines and equipment, and creating preventative care through education and outreach.
Currently, MJP continues to provide hands-on interactive coaching/training sessions and direct clinical interventions at 2 MJP health facilities: Kampong Touk Health Post (KTHP) and Bueng Run Health Centre (BRHC). The primary focus is to improve the quality of health care services in the region to reduce child mortality and morbidity, improve maternal health and combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (Cambodian Millennium Development Goal 4/5/6-CMDG).
2011 Health Interventions
- MJP/NHS (United Kingdom National Health Service)
- Health Post - Kampong Touk
- Health Centre - Bueng Run
- Baby Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI)
- Baby Friendly Clinic
- Maternal Health
- Family Planning
- HIV/AIDS, TB & Malaria
- Community Health Education
- Health Care Staff Capacity Building
- Dental Health Care
- Paediatric Ward (Battambang Referral Hospital)
- Emergency Referral System
Targets
Reduce by two thirds, between 2006 and 2012, the under-five mortality and morbidity rates in Samlout
Reduce by two thirds, between 2006 and 2012, child (ages 5 to 12) morbidity rates in Samlout
Reduce by three quarters, between 2006 and 2012, the maternal mortality and morbidity rates in Samlout