Children’s Clinic & Student Health
The students are so incredibly sweet, but students are students no matter where they are from. You have students that are really sick because of Malaria and other health problems and then there are students who want to be anywhere but in class, so they go see the nurse, sometimes in pairs. No different from students in the US.
Students are seen daily in a very small area about 5ft x 5ft designated as the nurse’s office in a building with storage and student supplies because they do not have a clinic yet. Students are sent to the hospital daily for various types of sicknesses. Malaria is one of the most common reasons why students are taken to the hospital. Acutely ill children are emergently taken to the nearest hospital for treatment.
The need for the clinic and medical supplies is great as the school is rapidly approaching its 1000 student target number. The school is continually growing. Currently the clinic has only one single bed and is great need of medical supplies and medicines.
The proposed Children’s Clinic, will have 12 beds will cost about $50,000 to build and equip. Your wonderful support so far has already made available $2,500 toward the building of the clinic. As you can see, we have a long way to go to get the balance of $ 47,500.
Currently only a little over 100 students are day schoolers and the rest are boarders who live in the dorms or hostels and are far away from their parents during their time in school. The day schoolers who commute to the campus daily. We are setting up a student medical record system and will also be training a team of 12 students in first aid over the next couple of months. Your support to get the clinic built is greatly needed. We ask for your prayers and financial support in this effort to ensure that children have access to care.
Thank you and God bless you.
Rosetta
