MEDICAL CARE
The United Nations has declared Good health and Well-being (number 3) as one of the most important global Development Goals 2020 – 2030. Particularly in rural Uganda, where 70% of the population lives, there is a lack of medical care for the poor.
Stop Poverty has been implementing medical projects since 2010. First in India in 2010 and later in Mozambique and Uganda. Medical care is accessible to everyone without discrimination or favouritism. Although self-reliance, sustainability and education, leading to work and income, are key priorities in Stop Poverty, we could not ignore the despair of many villagers, lacking medical care. A staggering 200,000 children aged 0 to 5 die, due to a lack of medical care and malnutrition!
The Uganda Medical Clinic has developed and expanded in five phases:
Covid-19 intervention plan
April 2020 – Mayi 2021 completed
Phase 1.
Phase 2.
Phase 3.
Phase 4.
Phase 5.
The building
Medical clinic
Laboratory equipment
Prenatal & Child Healthcare
Expansion with emergency department
March 2021 – May 2022 completed
Sept. 2022 – May 2023 completed
Feb. 2024 – June 2024 completed
Feb. 2025 – June 2025 completed
Feb. 2026 – June 2026 completed
Healthcare Goal 3: Good health and Well-being. Unnecessary deaths are prevented through prenatal care and child healthcare.
Goal 3.1 Reduced Maternal Mortality
Pregnant women are a vulnerable group. Despite progress, East Uganda in particular, is among the countries with the highest mortality rates among pregnant women in Africa (MMR Mother Maternity Rate)!
Goal 3.2 Reduce child mortality, age 0 to 5 years.
A staggering 200,000 children aged 0 to 5 die, due to a lack of medical care and malnutrition!
Our neighbour was the Dutchman Gerard Picavet, a living legend in Uganda, who had worked as a missionary for over 50 years for (underprivileged) poor villagers in education and medical care. He ran a small clinic near his home, where villagers who had no money could go for medical help for a minimal fee.
Picavet passed away in 2020, and with him his medical post. Stop Poverty has taken over his legacy to take care of poor villagers in need for medical assistance. The medical Clinic has been named after him: the Picavet Clinic.
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UN SDG: Sustainable Development Goals 2020 – 2030
Phase 1: The Building in 2021
UN SDG 3: Good health and Well-being
2022 The furnishing of the clinic still had to take place