Volunteer for Silais Health clinic in Nicaragua
Monday, November 16th, 2009Silais health clinics are government competency for the low income population. These clinics are located throughout the country. Their main objective is to provide basic health care, standard first aid, and providing continuation through pregnancy and post-delivery women, since 50% of pregnant women are under age. They also attend to newborns on follow up of their vaccines, and illness. Coordinate day’s journey on vaccination for the entire population, and provide the medication for different illness such as diarrhea, flu, lung infection, minor cuts and surgery. Another interesting fact is that the hospital offers pre-natal counseling on how to go through a healthy pregnancy, since in Carazo is the highest range of pre-natal death in Nicaragua
Volunteers can assist by doing following tasks:- 1- to assist doctors in hands-on work with patients. 2- help the population to understand the importance of preventing disease. 3- psychologist: we need seminars for the staff. 4- nurse training for the staff. 5- training in computer data base design and general programming. Volunteers must be of age 24 or above with minimum education of Undergraduation.
What is the purpose of this organization? Silais Health Clinics are run by the Ministry of Health and cater to the low-income population.
These clinics are located throughout the country but the main location is in Diriamba. Their main objective is to provide basic health care, standard first aid, pre- and post-natal care to pregnant women (usually teenagers) and their infants. They also provide vaccinations and medications and serve as an emergency room for minor injuries and surgery.
What community(s) does this organization assist? The main clinic is in Diriamba but they also run small clinics in the rural areas of La Trinidad, Casarez, San Gregorio, and Buena Vista. In addition they have 25 homes that they visit once a month to provide all of the services mentioned above. They have 50 certified midwives and 54 volunteers.
olunteers with the following special skills are preferred : Nurse Medical Student HIV/AIDS Awareness Training Public Health Sexual & Reproductive Health Training
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