Health
Our goal is to improve access to public health and primary medical care in North West Myanmar
Primary Health Care
Our community health projects includes maternal, newborn, and child health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, training for Community Health Workers, mobile clinics, fixed clinics and referral pathways. We target underserved areas and implementation is carried out in collaboration with a network of local partner organisations. Over the last 12 months we have achieved the following:
92,000 people treated through 11 fixed clinics and 12 mobile health teams
393 Community Health Workers trained to provide vital health care
Community Ambulance
Out of many, one of the biggest problems faced by displaced families is timely access to medical facilities during medical emergencies, childbirth and sickness. Due to their remote location and difficulties in access by road most of the existing medical and ambulance services do not have ability to reach hard to access rural areas. This is particularly relevant for pregnant women who struggle to access antenatal care and supported delivery by appropriately trained clinicians, especially for the communities who often cannot access health care.
Local information has shown that there are no ambulance services available at all in remote areas we serve. In addition, many of the villages are still not accessible by normal vehicles especially during the monsoon except by vehicles which are four-wheel drive (4WD).
Health & Hope have sought to meet this need through establishing a community ambulance service to reach out and respond to medical emergencies in the most remote and isolated locations, where the rest of the medical services are not able to reach.
This will improve the accessiblity of urgent and emergency healthcare for displaced, conflict affected and low resource community populations who are not yet reached by the existing medical and ambulance services. This is due to launch imminently with additional funding.
Our Health projects prior to the military coup
Prior to the military coup, from 2008 to 2021, Health & Hope trained 791 Community Health Workers (CHWs), 32 Area Coordinators (ACs) and 126 Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs). In addition, 14 local Trainer of Trainers have been trained who have in turn delivered Maternal & Neonatal health training to 101 TBAs in remote villages. This network of locally trained health workers forms part of the community-led response to health challenges across the region, providing support to a population of 150,000 people across 445 partner villages.
