Location: River Mamoré (Administrative district of Beni-Bolivia)
Local partner: Social Pastoral Caritas Beni
Justification:
This project aim at facing up to the following problems:
- Tackling the access difficulties to the sanitary services the rural communities on the banks of the river Mamoré are undergoing
- Reducing the maternal and infant mortality rate
- Reducing the infant malnutrition, anemia and parasitic diseases
- People´s ignorance about the right to health and the duty to take care of themselves
- Achievement of a basic sanitary assistance by the same communities
Objective:
- G.O. To guarantee a close sanitary service of care for 24 communities located on the banks of the river Mamoré
- G.O. To bring the sanitary attention nearer to the families living in the 24 communities on the banks of the river Mamoré
Activities:
On each one of the 6 trips the Boat´s staff carry out the following ones:
- General medicine benefits, odontology, infirmary and laboratory
- Vaccination of children under one year
- Training in toothbrush and hygiene
- Supply of communitary sick rooms
- Boat staff training in adaptation to the Ministry of Health´s and Social Security´s rules
- Coordination between the personnel and SEDES Departamental health Service
- Specific attention to pregnant women (pregnancy detection, prenatal controls, material supply for childbirths) on the part of sanitary team
- MEF specific attention (sample Papanicolaou, antitetanic vaccin supply, training on cervical-uterine cancer…) from the sanitary team
- Children´s weight and stature control
- Management of vitamin supplements
- Faeces and blood samples for children´s disparasitization
- Children´s disparasitization
- Realization of “health fairs”
- Advicing and training in planting and improvement of the family gardens
- Coordination between the promoters and the sanitary staff of “Kenko-Go” boat.
- Two training workshops for 24 health promoters and midwives
- One training workshop for 24 leaders of the beneficiary communities
Beneficiary population: some 3.252 people settled down in 24 rural native communities
Project duration: Annual (12 months)
Budget: €72.760,52
Finance: TAU, Caritas Beni, Bolivian Ministry of Health, CEI, SEDES, Prefecture
