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8/2/2019 Health Systems Partners Offers Hope for Thousands of Children at the Heart of R. Valley
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Trip to screen children at Ewaso for health conditions.
Introduction: In Kenya, approximate 115 children out of 1000 die from common preventable problems.
30% of Kenya Children have stunted growth leading to delayed mental, physical and psychological
development resulting to poor perfomance in schools and the society in general. My Ministry and health
systems partners has set to change this trend through a comprehensive school health program
Today we visit Ewaso Nyiro, a new cluster where we plan to enroll 1400 more children in this program.
Ewaso Nyiro also known as Guaso Nyiro is about 97 Km from the city centre(Nairobi) right inside the Jungle on the base of Rift valley. My team set out on Saturday 17 th to screen about 100 children who have no other health provider asome have never had a contact with the Doctor. Health Systems Partners a pion
project of Tentmakers international has a one of its Kind Comprehensive SchoolHealth program (CoSHE). In this program we have enrolled so far 4000 childin orphanages, schools (public and faith based) where we screen for health probleexamine, treat and refer children with various health and psychological problems
Armed with weighing scale, height board, other examination equipment and druwe leave Nairobi. With me was Lea Wambui (program coordinator, Geoffrey
Njihia. Our mission being first to meet Ewaso Nyiro School Program staff and100 children from 2 centres ie Nanjile and Ewaso. I had a problem finding howto get there on time as my car is not meant for off-road. Anticipating a hard timwe set from Nairobi at 8am.
The road to Ewaso
looks something lik
this…..You just can’
tell which rout to
take…sort of like a
maze
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When we got stuck one of the guide we had had to “dig through a dry river” to create away
Had to stop on the way to EWASO to
greet local guys feeding their cattle
and women seen here getting somewater for their family after walking for
a long distance…. In my conversation
with one community leader here I
realized that their number one
problem here is that the next health
facility is approximately 60 km away
and that they don’t have means of
ferrying sick children and women to
the hospital
Lea had a chat with local children as I
check the direction to the Children
centre. We certainly got lost
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After the day we had seen all the children. The interaction was great and managed to conduct baseline
health assessment. We plan to get back there to assess still another cluster in April 2012. Health systems
Partners has an ambitious goal of influencing the health, social and spiritual (character development for
a million children in the next 20 years in preparation for Vision 2030 and next generation. Read this blog
for more information.
© 2012 Health Systems Partners
Right Frederick and Geoffrey checking on the Children
from the centre.
Below. Some of the children who came to be screened
for health conditions.