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Mobile Clinic in Sri Lanka

Aims and Objectives

• Affordable health care in remote rural areas.
• Health care where it is needed.
• To reach the poorest people in the area.
• Care regardless of gender, race or religion.
• Basic health education.
• Basic training for nursing staff.
• Visit one village every day.
• Treat around 1200 patients per month.

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The Clinic is set amongst the tea plantations in Sri Lanka. Tea is grown high on the mountains which reach heights of 8000 feet. Most of the tea plantation workers are women. There is very high unemployment in the area especially amongst the men.

The people of the area are very poor. They live in long concrete huts with corrugated iron roofs. Each of these blocks are divided up into many small units where the families live. The clinic visits many remote villages such as this.

The clinic was started and run by Heidi Mudalige, a nurse from Britain, married to Kit, a Sri Lankan. She also taught health care at a ‘Mother and Baby’ Clinic run by KINGSCARE in the area. Since the sad death of Heidi in August 2002, the clinic is being run by the nurses that Heidi trained.

A doctor travels around with the mobile clinic. The staff also include nurses and a driver. Additional voluntary help is given locally in setting up the clinic in each village.

This is the vehicle which we have purchased for the mobile clinic. The roads are very bad but this vehicle will carry the staff to the remote sites of the clinics.

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