Project Muso Ladamunen Update

In the 3-month period from August to October 2009:

-          Community Health Workers assessed 5,048 children.

-          They accompanied 3,971 children to the Health Centre where they were given urgent treatment.

-          4,934 patients were able to visit and get a curative consultation at the Health Centre thanks to the Solidarity Fund which covered all of their health care costs.

And in the 12 months since Muso launched its Community-based Malaria Programme in September 2008 attendance at the Health Centre has doubled to 21,288.

Looking particularly at the 3,971 children who were accompanied to the health clinic for urgent treatment and considering there are only 20 Community Health Workers, this means that every Community Health Worker accompanied on average 16 children a week to the health clinic. This is in addition to the cases of simple paediatric malaria that they treat themselves, to the adults they accompany and to the education work they do in the community – these are impressive women!

And how many of these children’s lives have they saved? That is hard to estimate, but it is certainly clear that not all of these urgent cases would have made it without their speedy admission to treatment thanks to the community care workers’ home visits and availability.

The astounding increase in attendance at the clinic also highlights that Project Muso has, through its Solidarity Fund, made health care available to many of the poor in Yirimadjo, some of whom had previously had no access to health care.

This evidence of the incredible work that Project Muso is doing in Yirimadjo just strengthens my commitment to support this organisation – and I hope you will join me in that.

For further details, check out their website: http://www.projectmuso.org/

- Myriam, "Faiths Act Fellow" -