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Holy Rosary International Medical Mission
non-profit charitable
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2006 Mission |
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Dear
benefactors: Grace and peace of God be with you and your loved ones. May this greeting find you in good health. In the summer of 2006, our medical team of Holy Rosary International Medical Mission (HRIMM) went to Vietnam bringing labors and materials to care for the poor. We had opportunities to offer free medical care at different charitable locations. One of these locations was Kim Long Charity Clinic. At the Clinic, our medical team joined with the medical staff of the Clinic to provide absolutely free health care services to hundreds of poor patients who continued to stream into the facility each day. The following information is provided to help you know more about Kim Long Charity Clinic in Hue, Vietnam: its history, mission, and present and future needs. On behalf of
the staff and the people in the mission,
thank you for your past, present, and future
supports. We are grateful for your
generosity, and we thank God for wonderful
people that you are. We pray that God will
continue to bless you. And we hope you will
be able to continue to support our mission
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Kim Long Charity Clinic of The Sisters of the Congregation of Daughters of Mary Immaculate
Contact Person:
Sr. Benedictine Nguyen Thi Dien, MD – Clinic Director
Address: 32 Kim Long Hue City, Vietnam
Tel. 84 54 528484 E-mail ttkl@dng.vnn.vn
Target Groups: 35,000 poor patients in Hue of Thua Thien and Quang Tri Provinces
Annual Expense: $46,000 USD
Outstanding Request for Transportation: $80,000 USD for ambulances
1. Location Thua Thien Province is located in the Central region of Vietnam with Hue as its capital city and eight surrounding districts. It has a total population of approximately one million with a land area of 5009 km2. Majority of the population of Thua Thien Province are farmers. There are three groups of farmers who have a low income and are economically poor.
These groups of farmers have limited access to health care services and cannot afford proper medical care. In addition, availability of health service is limited. Ailments include hypertension, respiratory difficulties, arthritis, diarrhea and other common sicknesses such as flu. Prevention methods do not exist.
2. Kim Long Charity
Clinic--History--Purpose This clinic is run by sisters of the Congregation of Daughters of Mary Immaculate. This Congregation was established in 1920 by two French bishops and is the only congregation indigenous to Vietnam. This Congregation has benevolent activities in education of teenage women, helping poor patients, the elderly, orphans, handicapped, the blind and the deaf and marginalised ethnic groups. The motherhouse is located in Hue. To meet the healthcare needs of poor patients, our congregation decided to open a charity clinic in November 1992 with two small consultation rooms. Two sisters of this Congregation are medical doctors who graduated from Hue Medical School and have twenty-six years of experience as physicians. The program outgrew the available space within a short period of time. Therefore, in 1993 a house belonging to the Carmelite community was converted into the existing health care centre. The facility now consists of:
In 2004, thanks to the donors, we have one more new building for the service of the patients, especially the HIV/AIDS patients The staff is made up of 15 medical doctors, 8 nurses, and 2 technicians. The clinic operates 3 days a week and approximately 250 patients are seen each day. Other days the mobile clinic provides medical and social services to the poor who do not have access to the health care centre. The mobile clinic travels to the countryside and mountain regions offering a dental clinic, consultation and pharmacy.
Clients
Served The clients served are patients from many areas of the Thua Thien and Quang Tri Province, older people, children and women represent patients visiting our clinic. Malnutrition and infection are the main reason the children visit the clinic. In 2000, the number of patient visits to the clinic was 35,000 with an increase to 42,000 in 2001. In addition to the work at the clinic one Saturday a month the mobile clinic goes to the communes far from Hue for example, highland villages(ethnic minorities) in co-operation with the Red Cross Organization of the province to provide free health care clinics. Poverty in the ethnic minority is the main reason babies have malnutrition. Other problems are unclean water, lack of sanitation, lack of access and availability of drugs and other treatments. Services Provided Charity Clinic:
Rehabilitation program:
In 1997, collaboration was formed with nine sisters of our
Congregation in Loc Thuy, Phu Loc District, 45 km away from Hue in order
to develop a community based rehabilitation program. HIV/AIDS Services: In 1996, through the charity clinic, we began servicing patients with HIV/AIDS. The service provides: counselling, health care, home visits, and small financial support of the family members for food and daily needs. In addition, small scholarships are given for their children to continue going to school. Some of our staff are trained in Palliative care which is offered in the home for the patients and their families in the terminal phase. Mobile Medical Unit:
On the alternate days, a mobile unit will visit remote and mountain areas to provide medical services to the rural poor and ethnic groups who are most marginalized. The team comprises four to 4 medical doctors, 3 nurses, 1 dentists and 1 religious sister. Examination, consultation, treatment and medication are given free. The mobile unit is organized once a week to different remote rural or highland areas. Normally, the mobile unit gets requests from rural communities, communes, even quasi-state agencies, such as Red Cross, local public health centers or local government agencies. While giving examination and treatment, some members of the mobile unit will also give preventive health education, as well as identifying their health and economic needs. Other Services:
Contacts with clients at the clinic and other programs helps
our congregation identify the needs of many of the clients we
service. These contacts give us the opportunity to share in our
clients suffering yet guides us to assist in meeting their needs.
Consequently, we assist them with the following needs: providing food
and scholarships, bicycles and school supplies for the children, small
funds for working mothers to raise pigs, goats, and cows. Other small
projects include the repair of roofs on thatched houses and water wells
for clean drinking water. Government Authority: The charity clinic is recognized by both local and provincial authorities, and extends its service to a great number of poor people without discrimination.
Charity Clinic Goals and Objectives Goal: To help the poor to improve their health conditions. Objective:
Goal: To provide access to health care. Objective:
Target Groups - 35,000 poor patients from rural areas of Thua Thien and Quang Tri Provinces. - Intergenerational with an emphasis on women, children and elderly.
3. Staff Recruitment and Development
The medically trained staff of Kim Long Charity Clinic and the Mobile Unit comprises 12 medical doctors and 8 nurses 2 technicians,1 driver, 2 workers. The nurses are working full-time three days a week. The five sisters working at the clinic include; 2 doctors and 2 nurses, and one treasurer. The Clinic pays 30-40 US$ monthly to each of the medical doctors and 28-30 US$ for each nurse. Medicine, 525,000,000 VND Mobile health care unit, 90,000,000 ______________ 615,000,000 VND Medical doctors, 48,000,000 Nurses, 14,400,000 Other supplies and office 18,000,000
Total 690,000,000 VND = $46,000 USD / year
The
needs are many. Financial partners help to sustain the on-going efforts
of our congregations' programs and staff development. We cannot do
anything without your co-operation and financial support. We appreciate
any contributions for the sake of the poor we serve. Through all these
services-- as a gift-- we have learnt day-by-day, that there are many
medicines and cures for all kinds of sickness, but unless kind hands are
given in service and generous hearts are given in love, we do not think
there can ever be a cure for the terrible sickness of feeling unloved.
Yours
truly,
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