Mount Olives Community Health Center is owned by the Mount Olives Self Help Group, an initiative of young professionals who came up together to work in their community through sharing knowledge and helping the community to grow. The health center is registered by the ministry of Health and is serving the rural community of Mosocho, a region that is prone to malaria and skin diseases.
The hospital was started in 2015 to help the needy members of the community, hence it offers free consultation to date and patients only pay for medication. The hospital doesn’t do major surgeries yet but it hopes to expand its services in the near future. Services offered at the facility include both outpatient, inpatient and laboratory services. It offers affordable healthcare and also works towards community education health related topics to reduce prevalence of preventable diseases. It also supports the youths by providing youth friendly services. The inpatient wards are not equipped yet but the staff try their best to offer a good service.
Other activities undertaken by the group include: Offering education to children, and promoting environmental conservation through mobilization and support of tree planting and protection of water springs. The hospital is welcoming medical volunteers to learn and support the local staff to offer services to the people.
In future, the hospital hopes to install medical equipment, more beds, imaging services and a fully equipped maternity wing. The hospital has 13 staff members, and treats an average of 30 patients per day.
İş Tanımı
Volunteer activities
• Assisting to Co-coordinate and take care of patients.
• Assisting to take patients samples, pulses and temperature information.
• Preparing and updating records in the hospital.
• Assisting in nursing patients in the inpatient wards
• Providing advice and emotional support to patients.
• Assisting in cleaning of the hospital.
• Community outreach activates involving visiting the old people to give them free medication
• Assisting to teach in a nearby school
Konaklama ve Yemek
Food and Lodging
Our volunteer will be accommodated in a host family/ guest room in Nyakoe Shopping Center. The house has water and electricity. The volunteer will be required to bring with her a sleeping bag. Kindly pay attention to the things you should bring to make your accommodation more comfortable.
Food (breakfast, lunch and dinner) will be provided throughout the project duration. Only locally available foodstuffs are used for cooking.
As we continue to find a suitable accommodation near the project, the volunteer will commute to the project with a public bus at a cost of KES 40 per day.
Konum ve Serbest Zaman
Notlar
Konuşulan Diller
English
En Yakın Terminal
Unknown
Havaalanı
Unknown
Konum
Mosocho Market along Kisii-Oyugis Road, Kisii County