Cause Project
by WE Charity UK
£50,000.00
Donation Goal
Donation Goal
Project Details
“I am happy I gave my baby the best gift a mother can give: delivering at the hospital.”
This is Rono. Rono is a new mother who recently gave birth at Baraka Health Clinic in rural Kenya. Four years ago,Free The Children founded Baraka Health Clinic to help increase access to primary health care for thousands of Maasai, Kipsigi and Kisii community members.
Since opening in 2013, the maternity wing has seen 213 healthy, happy babies being delivered and this number continues to rise each day. From essential medicine and immunisations to child welfare, Baraka has provided an invaluable service to over 30,000 community members.
Today we are asking Googlers to support our Baraka Health Centre. Free The Children is an international charity that partners with developing communities in eight countries worldwideto overcome the root causes of poverty and remove the barriers to education. Through our holistic and sustainable development model, Adopt a Village, we work through five development pillars that provide sustainable solutions and build up communities’ capacity to meet every child’s right to education, water, healthcare, food and sustainable income. To help children break free from poverty, we must first empower their mothers, improve their schools, outfit their health clinics and build their water facilities.
In areas of Kenya, health related issues such as respiratory disease, malaria and waterborne illnesses present massive obstacles to children attending school and parents going to work. Baraka Health Centre has fundamentally transformed healthcare accessibility for the community through their extensive, high quality services.
The next step for Baraka Health Centre is to set up an Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) system to streamline patient care and track health trends in their community. An EHR system would enable Baraka to provide more efficient and effective care to all of their patients, while ensuring that potential health outbreaks are monitored and contained. The EHR system would cover three main areas: patient records, pharmacy, and safety alerts.
1. PATIENT RECORDS
An electronic patient record system would increase the quality, safety and coordination of care as well as administrative efficiency. With this system in place the entire process flow of the patient could be captured from registration to triage where vital signs are taken to the time they leave the hospital.
With access to all aspects of health history and current vital signs doctors will be able to more effectively diagnose patients, reduce medical errors and provide safer care.
2. PHARMACY
An electronic pharmacy system would help maintain stock controls to ensure an efficient procurement and distribution system of supplies is in place. The system would alert staff when the stocks are low, what the current status of any product or medication is and to see how often something is being used. Increased efficiencies in stock control will lead to monetary savings.
3. SAFETY ALERTS
The increased ability to track health trends per person as well as per community will lead to more informed health prevention initiatives and safety alerts.
COST
Your fundraising pounds would be put towards hardware inputs, software inputs, maintenance fees (18 percent of total cost of system) and repairs. The cost also accounts for a long term implementation strategy, from planning to set up to training – usually taking about six months in total so that all staff members feel very comfortable with the new system. This initial implementation plan also ensures that all past medical records have been put onto the new system.
Donation Deadline
Saturday, Dec 31, 2016
Project Website
http://reports.freethechildren.com/community/kenyahealth/ Project Location
7-11 St. John's Hill, London,
England SW11 1TR
United Kingdom.