MEDIC ASSIST INTERNATIONAL
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Mission Statement
Medic Assist International (MAI) exists to improve access to quality healthcare in resource limited communities, often in locations where there is suffering through persecution and oppression. MAI does not set up its own independent identity in countries outside the UK. Rather, it supports existing Christian primary and secondary healthcare partners, and works with them on the healthcare priorities and sustainable solutions they have identified. MAI aims to save lives and relieve suffering through improving the health outcomes of the most marginalised and vulnerable in a community by investing in: ● local primary and secondary healthcare staff, facilities, and services ● community-based healthcare ● health awareness raising ● holistic healthcare, discovering and addressing root causes. www.medicassistinternational.org
About This Cause
Bringing health and hope in the hardest times. Medic Assist International (MAI) was founded in 2003 to support Christian mission hospitals and clinics share the love and compassion of the Christian faith through providing healthcare for people in desperate circumstances, regardless of race, age, class or creed. Our supporters are saving lives and reducing suffering for thousands of people living in poverty every year through MAI’s partnerships with exceptional and trusted Christian healthcare providers in some of the world’s poorest communities. We know that when those living in extreme poverty get sick, daily life gets tougher still. By helping our partners provide affordable accessible health care we prevent many families from falling into absolute destitution and debt. Bringing health and hope in the hardest times. Last year, our supporters helped our outstanding partners provide health and social care to approximately 10,600 extremely vulnerable people and vital public health education to over 25,000 people. Read more about the difference your support could make in Medic Assist International’s Annual Review 2023/24 All we do is shaped and driven by the fact that we: • We are moved and compelled by God’s love and committed to demonstrating that love in action. • We are appalled by the brokenness of humanity, and committed to addressing injustice so the most vulnerable people can access the health care they need. • We are inspired by the dedication and compassion of our partners and are committed to listening and responding to their health care priorities so we can work towards a shared vision for change. • We value every penny and minute of time given to us and are committed to the most effective use of these resources. Chad - Guinebor II Hospital Chad is one of the poorest countries in the world with over 40% of the population are living in extreme poverty. 1 in 10 children under five will not see their fifth birthday. The partnership with Guinebor II Hospital in Chad started in 2021. In 2023, MAI supporters funded three essential projects at Guinebor II hospital: i. Affordable Care for Pregnant Mother & Malnourished Children Programme ii. The Child Development Centre for the therapeutic treatment for disabled children iii. Building a new women’s ward. Through these projects MAI supporters contributed to the safe delivery for over 2,300 births, antenatal care for 400 mothers, saved the lives of over 340 children with severe acute malnutrition, and treated 85 children with disabilities. The new women’s ward, 50% funded by MAI, received its first women patients in December 2023. In the first 6 months 1562 women patients were admitted. The lives of 252 women admitted with life-threatening conditions were saved. India - Chinchpada Christian Hospital (CCH), Nandubar District, Maharashtra State CCH is the only secondary care hospital serving a remote rural district with a population of 500,000 people. Over 70% are living in extreme poverty, making it one of the poorest districts in India. Since 2018 MAI has supported CCH’s vital pioneering Enhanced Community Engagement through Palliative Care Programme (ECEPC) to improve the quality of life of people and families experiencing serious prolonged health related suffering through life-limiting conditions. In 2023, 160 received patient-centered and family-oriented end of life care. Helping them live as well as possible and die with dignity their value deeply affirmed and families supported. The ECEPC programme provides community-based primary care for the management of chronic disease management. Improving the quality of life of the 1,686 patients that have been enrolled into the programme to date. The most common illnesses being treated are Tuberculosis, Sickle Cell Disease, disabilities, and alcoholism. Left untreated, these lead to most of the life limiting conditions the team are currently caring for through CCH’s palliative Home-Based Care Service. CCH’s vision is to pioneer a replicable model of excellent and context specific palliative care in rural resource-poor contexts. And from this be a practical learning centre for other hospitals to send teams to learn the nuances of running an effective and impactful palliative care service, which can be replicated at their respective centres. Seven hospitals sent teams to CCH for palliative training in 2023. A new team of four Community Health Workers were trained by CCH in 2023 to replicate the palliative care and community healthcare model in a remoter part of the district. And a local NGO providing palliative care in the district is also being mentored by the ECEPC Team. Growing recognition of CCH’s expertise in rural palliative was further evidenced by ECEPC Programme Lead, Dr Ashita Singh, being invited by (i) The Indian Association of Palliative Care to be a part of a core group that determines minimum standards for Indian Palliative Care Programs in various contexts in India (ii) the District Health Authority to train 150 District Medical Officers Sickle Cell Disease treatment protocols and palliative care pain management and wound care. (iii) The UK Christian Medical Fellowship to give a virtual presentation at their 2023 Developing Health Course complex learning day. The new 10 bed Isolation Ward funded by MAI supporters was completed in December 2023. It is an essential addition given Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence is almost three times the national average. Saving the lives of over 400 patients that have been admitted since January 2023, nearly all with acute TB. MAI are supporting the construction of a new 14 bed ICU and 14 bed General Medical Ward, work started in 2023 and is due to be completed by the end of 2024. South Africa - Embo Primary Health Clinic, KwaZulu-Natal. Embo is an informal settlement stretched over miles of rolling hills on the outskirts of Durban. Rates of poverty and HIV and TB are shockingly high. Unemployment is estimated at 52% and in Kwa- Zulu Province the HIV positivity rate stands at 27.2% within the 15-49 age group. Embo Community Church’s primary healthcare clinic (PHC), built with funding from MAI supporters in 2014, received over 19,000 patients in 2023. Including, monthly health check for over 1100 patients living with HIV. The clinic is now 80% locally sustainable through a contract with the local Department of Health funding staff costs, medicines and medical supplies. The local Department of Health considers it to be one of the best PHC’s in the area. Embo PHC is unusual in that it has MAI supporting (i) a dedicated Community Caregiver Team (CCT) doing patient home follow-up and (ii) patient transport. This combination of clinic, caregiver outreach and patient transport saves many lives. In 2023, 300 vulnerable HIV and chronic disease patients, as well as pregnant mothers and malnourished children were referred to the CCT for follow up home visits. The CCT also attend the District Health weekly community outreach clinics, where patients are referred to the caregivers for health information and counselling. In 2023, the CCT provided health information to over 12,000 people in the community. South Sudan - Diocese of Kejo-Keji and Diocese of Yei Martha Primary Health Care Centre, Yei: In 2023, MAI continued to contribute to clinic running costs during a time of hyperinflation. Over the year this busy clinic served over 23,759 patients, including 2,234 under-fives, 1,633 antenatal patients and 2434 attending the eye clinic. South Sudan - Romogi Primary Health Care Clinic (PHCC), Kejo-Keji There has been no funded activity on this project in 2023. The community are continuing to return to the area through 2023 from Uganda where they had fled during a surge in fighting between Government forces and opposition forces in 2017. Refugees are returning in increasing numbers so planning discussions are now place with the Diocese of Kejo-Keji to look at opening the PHCC, built in 2016 with MAI funding, as soon as possible.