QUALITY HEALTH SERVICES TO ALL SOCIAL CLASES

 The people who need serious medical attention in our area, usually suffer because the facilities around, except the government one, are all in a money finding game, where the cost of the treatment is not equivalent to the services given. E.g. the registration is Ֆ4 cash. In case of laboratory tests, stool for ova and cyst = Ֆ2 cash, malaria test = Ֆ2 cash, urine analysis Ֆ2 cash, helicobacter pylori test = Ֆ6 cash, HIV test = Ֆ2 cash etc. In case of hospital admission, seven days can accrue more than Ֆ800 with no specialist medical consultant reviews. No U/S and no X-Ray in any of these hospitals and none have a mortuary. On the side of government one, staffs are demotivated due to non-met hospital needs and frequent strikes due to salary crisis. In addition to the above challenges, these facilities can cover only 50% of the catchment population i.e. 10,000.

Most of the people in the area who are in need of special medical care, usually travel long distances to hospitals in Meru town which is more than 25Kms, Nkubu town which is 40Kms and even St. Theresa Mission Hospital-Kiirua which is almost 50Kms. MMGH at Mikinduri town will solve this problem by providing quality medical services with a subsidized cost. It will be a medical facility for all, yielding to the best medical services, hospitality and spirituality. To achieve attraction to our services, there are Christian virtues lacking in the nearby medical facilities which we will put in place i.e. hospitality -which will come up through warm welcome and care applying good communication skills by all staffs- best medical services, and spiritual nourishment where we shall collaborate with nearby catholic parish.

The catchment population of the area is slightly above 20,000 where the majorities are poor people who cannot afford Ֆ2.0 freely as a consultation fee. If we get support, we can serve these people of God at their level but giving them what is quality.

Mary mother of God Hospital (MMGH) have a plan of building three floors hospital. Ground floor is already complete having 13 rooms which need only proper finishing. The rooms are spacious where the smallest one is of 4M × 4M area. The remaining ground floor rooms will be used for Mother/Child health clinic (MCH), Maternity, Minor theatre and a Dental clinic.

On the first floor there will be X-ray room, Ultrasonography room, special clinic consultation rooms, side rooms for quarantine, prenatal and postnatal wards. On the second and third floor, they will house male, female and pediatric wards.

Fortunately, discussions are ongoing to get additional surrounding land for hospital extension, where additional wards, major theatre and mausoleum buildings will be sited.

The goal of MMGH is to find that we are the most attractive hospital through its beauty in services we give and physical structure, and to be able to serve people of all social classes with equity, and to give affordable quality health care services to all.

To achieve our goal, we shall have collaboration with mission hospitals and government hospitals. Discussions are already started between MMGH and St. Theresa mission hospital- Kiirua which is our role model hospital.

During recruitment and interviews of the workers, arrangements shall be put in place so that the hospital gets staffs that will provide the exact care needed. After recruitments, there will be MMGH staff training on communication skills among other things so as to maintain respect and fitting language within the hospital.

Outpatient department is operational now. We will continue improving OPD services until we find that it is as we dreamt. We will start Mother and Child health clinic (MCH), dental clinic, maternity, inpatient and then specialized clinics where specialists of different speciality e.g. gynecologist, pediatrics etc. will be coming to see patients in booking. Eye clinic and other clinics of importance will be started following the patient needs.

MMGH directors want to see that OPD services are well placed before starting inpatient because we believe that the inpatient workload comes from the outpatient workload. In other word, a number of patients in a busy OPD will be in need of hospitalization.

Down the line we shall purchase X-Ray and Ultrasonography machines, and the latest of all the primary plans, will be a mausoleum.

The high social classes had been getting quality health services. But the poor are usually neglected. We are working to find a solution of bringing equality in health services delivery. The most beneficiary of this are the poor, although all social classes will get quality care.

I and my team are the right people to do this project because we have lived in the poor community and we know what it means not having quality health care. its the community solving its own health challenges.

At least 5 people in a day

ACTIVITY

Outpatient department finishing

AMOUNT NEEDED

Ֆ8,039

SOURCES

-MMGH

-Donors

WHEN

Immediately

DURATION OF WORK

1 Months

ACTIVITY

1st 2nd and 3rd floor building

AMOUNT NEEDED

Ֆ51,352

SOURCES

-MMGH

-Donors

-partners

WHEN

Recently

DURATION OF WORK

3-5 Months

ACTIVITY

Finishing of the remaining half of the ground floor

AMOUNT NEEDED

Ֆ12,058

SOURCES

-MMGH

-Donors

-partners

WHEN

Recently

DURATION OF WORK

2 Months

ACTIVITY

Roofing of the building

AMOUNT NEEDED

Ֆ16,077

SOURCES

-MMGH

-Donors

-partners

WHEN

Later

DURATION OF WORK

1 Months

ACTIVITY

Finishing of the 1st 2nd and 3rd floor

AMOUNT NEEDED

Ֆ32,154

SOURCES

-MMGH

-Donors

-partners

WHEN

Later

DURATION OF WORK

3 Months

As you can see above, workers’ salary, medical drugs, machines and equipment, purchase of additional land and mausoleum is not included in the budget. This is because the above budget is drawn from the budget which we had from the beginning and still it is the most pressing issue.