Project Report
| May 17, 2024
Life in Myanmar lately
By Vittoria Brucoli | Communication and Fundraising manager
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Patient visit
In Myanmar, it has been increasingly difficult to operate for the past two years due to constant political tension. Despite the circumstances, MedAcross is one of the few NGOs that continues to operate in remote villages through mobile clinics.
In the latest mobile clinic, the MedAcross team reached the home of U., a 71-year-old man who has been suffering from lung problems for months. Since he became ill, U. has been unable to work, which creates several difficulties for both him and his family, which consists of six members.
Our medical team joined examined him carefully, gave him doses of antibiotic and helped with respiratory problems through a portable nebulizer, teaching him how to use the inhaler checked his blood pressure.
Through the Mobile Clinics we reach people who live too far from hospitals and are unable to get treatment at this time.
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Jan 19, 2024
An island story
By Vittoria Brucoli | Communication and Fundraising manager
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D. and her daughter
WE are working hard to support Burmese people during the silent (for the international media) but deadly civil war. Myanmar is a country with landscapes of haunting beauty, especially in the south where there are islands covered in lush vegetation where the population lives with ancient rhythms. But conflict and economic crisis have no natural boundaries, as we saw during the last Mobile Clinic on Makyone Galet Island.
Among the 76 patients visited in one day came D, a 53-year-old woman who has been suffering from stomach pains for months. The woman was holding the hand of an eight-year-old girl, her daughter whom she adopted five years ago. "I have always desired to be a mother, it has been my dream since I got married at the age of 17. But children never came, until I heard about C. She had been brought to the temple because her family had to flee the country. We have been inseparable ever since'.
"C. suffers seeing me in pain, she worries that I can't take care of her because I'm struggling to work. But with the current crisis, I can't afford to travel by boat to the hospital and besides, the cost of medicine has quadrupled, I don't know how to manage."
D. was examined by our medical team who found that she had severe gastroenteritis and was prescribed free medicine to recover. In remote places without access to medical care, it is often the simplest and most easily curable diseases that are fatal. At a time when the Burmese population is constantly threatened by the ongoing conflict, the Mobile Clinic is the only way in which rural communities can have access to medical care.
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Sep 19, 2023
A day with MedAcross Mobile Clinic
By Vittoria Brucoli | Communication and Fundraising manager
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Mobile clinic during the long road to the village
Mobile clinic means making appointments at sunrise at the Kawthaung clinic with fellow nurses and doctors, packing all the boxes with medicines into the pickup remembering all the technical equipment needed to carry out medical examinations even in the event of a power failure. It means being prepared for all circumstances.
Mobile clinic means hours of dusty roads that become rivers of mud during the rainy season, miles of bumping around, with instrument boxes to protect against breaking.
It means arriving at the village and already finding a line of patients waiting their turn, finding many smiles from people ready to help set up the temporary clinic, it means visiting everyone even if you finish late.
See for yourself a day of Mobile Clinic by following the eyes of Nyi, the project manager of activities in Myanmar (the video is in Italian, write to us if you prefer to receive it in English!).
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