Date post: | 02-Jan-2016 |
Category: |
Documents |
Upload: | dora-castaneda |
View: | 22 times |
Download: | 0 times |
Thinking outside the box
Promoting healthcare andenvironmental protection in
Indonesian Borneo
Kinari Webb, M.D.
Borneo
Borneo
Australia
India
Gunung Palung National Park
• 222,395 acres• Fantastically
Diverse habitat• Breeding population
of orangutans• Threatened by
illegal logging• High healthcare
needs- 60,000 people
The Problem• Borneo has the worst
deforestation in the world
• Unsurpassed biodiversity loss
• Poverty and lack of economic choices
• Terrible health care• Environmental
destruction leads to worse health
Loss is Forever
Human and Environmental Health
• Watershed destruction• Floods• Landslides• Diseases• Global Warming
Life around Gunung Palung• 1/3 choose between
food and medicine• Total assets: $270• Average cost of one
medical emergency: $460; 10% of households had one
• 41% have done illegal logging
• Average income from illegal logging: $310/yr
• 100% would readily switch to alternative work
The Healthcare Model
Integrated Solutions
• High quality health care for everyone
• Environmentally-friendly non-cash payment options
• Extra benefits for communities that protect the forest
• Alternative livelihoods
The ASRI Clinic
• Over 9,000 patients• DOTS program for
TB• Birth Control• Eyeglasses• Mosquito Nets• Trained over 100
providers
Cataract Surgery
Design for Hospital
How do poor people pay?
Working in the Organic Garden and Seedling Nursery
The Red-Green System
Is a Community Red or Green?(Doing Illegal Logging or Not?)
Communities were asked what they wanted
• Over 400 hours of formal and informal meetings
What communities said they wanted:
1. Mobile clinic visits
2. An ambulance
3. Organic farming and health education
4. Discounts at the clinic
So Far…
Mobile Clinic Visits
Signs of Success
• Communities going from red green
• Over six months: 31% 40% green
• Just completed evaluation meeting
• Need to spread word
• Process, not quick fix but encouraging
Where We Want To Go• Expand from clinic to
hospital• Reforestation as part
of work program; carbon finance
• Continue to work with communities on conservation incentives
• Track successes
Saying Thank You for Preserving Rain Forest
• Every $4.50 in donations allows Project ASRI to treat one patient and offer tangible benefits in exchange for the
protection of vital rain forest habitat.
Costs to Provide Care
• Birth Control: $5/yr
• 6 months of TB medicine: $30
• Run DOTS program: $555/mo
• Doctors Salary for one month: $600
www.healthinharmony.org
Photos:
Erick DanzerTim Laman
Kinari WebbDavid PeartCam Webb
Antonia GorogStuart Webb
Photo Credits: