Miakotsorano Basic Health Centre
inauguration: October 18, 2024 🎉
Thanks to Vanilla Corporation of America, Street Foundation and the SATTIN family for financing this project ❤️
📍Location: Miakotsorano,
Rural commune of Ambatomirahavay,
District of Arivonimamo,
Region of Itasy.
💡Objectives:
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To provide health care facilities in closer proximity to the population by building a Basic Health Center consisting of 11 rooms, including a waiting room, consultation room, a pharmacy and a maternity suite consisting of delivery and recovery rooms – all conforming to Ministry of Health specifications.
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To provide beds, furniture and essential medical supplies and equipment.
Build by Jean-Luc RASOAMIARAMANANA's team
Cost
1/ Basic Health Centre, 11 rooms: Ariary 137,465,156 (£ 27,493)
2/ Furniture and medical equipment : Ariary 25,691,460 (£ 5,138)
3/ Ventilation Improved Pit (VIP) latrine and shower- accessible to wheelchair users: Ariary 18,352,850 (£3,670)
TOTAL REQUESTED COST: Ariary 181,509,466 (£ 36,302)
PROJECT OUTLINE:
Since 2009 Madagascar has experienced serious political tension and social unrest. According to the World Bank 81% of the population of 31 million live in extreme poverty on an income of less than US 2,00 a day (92% have a daily income of less than US$ 2,00). A World Bank report states that Madagascar is the fifth poorest country on earth in terms of school attendance and food insecurity, after only Malawi and Central African Republic.
Conditions for the population of Miakotsorano are typical of those in rural communities. The majority of people in this particularly poor and deprived farming community live in harsh and primitive conditions, and make their living from agriculture and cattle raising.
The population of Miakotsorano has suffered from the absence of easy access to health care. Pregnant women, mothers and children are particularly vulnerable when needing urgent medical treatment. An important quarry business started 10 years ago near the village, many cases of injuries from the quarry have been reported. Also as it is an important agricultural area, injuries occurred very often during the working on the land using sharp tools or equipment such as spades. The nearest Health Centre is situated in Ambatomirahavavy, 5kms away, involving a challenging walk of up to an hour.
The Mayor has approached the Ministry to ask for their help in getting a health centre, but the government has no means, at least he was given a promise from the Medecin Inspecteur that once the construction for the new CSB is finished a doctor or a nurse will be sent.
The absence of easy and low cost health care in Miakotsorano causes suffering and hardship to the population in the daily lives. A Health Centre would enable them to receive treatment in due time. In addition, pregnant women would be able to give birth safely in hygienic conditions – reducing the major public health problem of high maternal maternity and infant morbidity.
This community needs access to maternity and health care – to reduce the high rate of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. The most common ailments among the population are high blood pressure, diarrhea, malaria, bilharzia chest infections and flu. The villagers are aware of the risks of self-medication and using the services of untrained traditional birth attendant. But in the absence of trained medical care they often have no other choice.