Community Outreach
Lifeline Malawi (LM) continues to expand it delivery of rural health care to families in both of our catchment areas (Ngodzi and Kasese). The primary focus for these outreach clinics is the provision of health care to people in some of the more remote areas within the country.
Lifeline Malawi’s goals are to improve:
- Health of adults and children
- Household health management and style
- Basic hygiene
Lifeline delivers medical services at these outreach clinics by combining and offering:
- Outpatient department
- Antenatal
- Family planning
- Under 5 clinics
- HIV Testing and Counselling (HTC)
- Community health
- Pre clinic health talks
Community Outreach Program:
- The outreach team is comprised of 8 staff: 3 clinicians, a dispensing assistant, a patient attendant, a driver, a registration data clerk and an HTC counsellor.
- During the outreach clinics, LM will provide HTC, ART including paediatric, PMTCT, management of opportunistic infections, immunization (including provision of Vitamin A) of under-five children and treatment of common childhood illnesses.
- Includes training of health workers in Paediatric and counselling, training of home based cared volunteers as well as team supervisors
- Provide health care services to children. Activities include de-worming, growth monitoring, immunization and screening for minor illnesses.
- Provides Bicycle Ambulances to group village headmen in order to aid in transportation of chronically ill people, and pregnant women from their homes to health facilities and back.
- Supports World AIDS day activities targeted toward the youth of the communities.
- Mobilizes support from stakeholders (District Health Officer, Social Welfare Dept, Health Centre staff, Chiefs) through consultation meetings to determine locations of new outreach and CBCC sites. Lifeline conducts sensitization and mobilization meetings for service availability and utilization including chiefs, teachers, nursery schools, CBCCs and the general community.
