Haller Health


Clinic & Mobile Medical Unit

The Haller health centre and mobile outreach service allows us to offer a totally integrated approach to grassroots development linking water, food and education with health.

It took just 10 months, from inital dialogue with the communities to opening the clinic in November 2007.

 

Health Centre

The presmise of Haller's health service is based on prevention through education and affordable patient-centred care. 


Health education workshops are run regularly alongside our education centre's current workshop programmes and are delivered to the communities as part of our outreach services.  Workshops focus on pre and ante-natal care, HIV/Aids, life skills based education, nutrition, hygiene and sanitation, growing medicinal plants and vegetation and waste disposal.

The project was led by Dr Claire Davies-Chung, a UK registered GP, who identified that cost, transport and a lack of knowledge regarding personal medical history were the greatest limiting factors to the communities we work with.

We currently have a medical officer, Dr Lennox, and a qualified nurse, Florence, who run both the health centre and the outreach services. In conjunction with the Kenyan Minstry of Health, The Haller Foundation is able to offer subsidised health care.

Outreach services

In order to increase the impact of our health centre project, we established an outreach service to help the most vulnerable and isolated communities. These communities rely on self-medicating and visiting their local 'witch' doctor for treatment. This is largely as a result of access. Walking to the nearest doctor is often a three hour journey for a healthy individual. The lack of access to medical treatment results in delay in seeking healthcare - often to the detriment of the patient.

The outreach services visits each of the communities on a weekly basis. Using a 4-wheel drive to travel off road in rough and difficult terrain, the mobile medical unit serves four key purposes:

  • health education to remote village communities
  • health care
  • Ministry of Health sponsored vaccination programmes, and,
  • transportation for the critically ill children and adults to the government hospital.

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