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Provide medical training to a local resident to make triage and basic care available at all times where there is no doctor. This also provides a career path and income for young men and women to serve their neighbors.
We surveyed over 500 people in dozens of tea garden villages to find out what they needed most. The number one challenge was getting affordable and reliable medical care.
“The clinics set up by plantation owners give the same treatment for everything,” they said, “four multivitamins and tylenol. It does no good and we’re forced to wait and see, or risk a month’s salary going to the city hospital. Many die because we can’t afford help.”
Global South CS trains village volunteers to organize local resources and network with doctors and pharmacies to provide care and life-saving medicine free of charge.
We reach thousands of families annually with monthly medical outreach by empowering the community to care for itself through cooperative efforts. Each new partner village receives initial training and funding for the first year’s outreach events with the plan of becoming self-sustainable in year two.
Each village partner may also nominate a community member for Village Medical Practitioner training. This develops a resource person in their community who is able to assess conditions and provide either help for readily treatable conditions or refer them to a higher level of Care.
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