Summary of project status and achievements:
In March, FHS employees worked extensively with Community Health Workers in the settlement doing remote and local RDT’s. Several people approached FHS for counciling and were seen and refered to the clinic.
Mary and Given opened a new outreach in Road 28 on 9 April. More than 50 people attended.
Progress towards Coordinator’s goals/Trends from indicators:
Future activities and goals:
While we are unable to do the Vitamin A distribution this month we are working with the Ministry of Health to put together a distribution project in April. This will reach all blocks of the camp.
We are also hoping to continue holding an Under Five clinic at least once a month to better serve the Block C community.
Substantial problems or issues:
Wishes or requests:
None at this time.
By Jessica ZetzmanA short history of FHS: FHS stands for FORGE Health Services which basically deals with health matters in the Block C Community and other surrounding areas and is based at the FORGE compound in Block C in Meheba.
The main aims and objectives of this project is basically to educate the communities on health related problems. The information is taken in the communities through these ways: outreach, sensitization in clinics, workshops and also one to one health education. And the other thing FHS employees are working hard to make sure that FHS starts is the program of treating malaria with basic treatment, having Under Five Clinics being done at the centre and also having people being tested for HIV. The employees are moving up and down to meet with Health Ministries and other health organizations to make sure tha these mentioned activities are done at the FHS centre.
As for this month the main target for FHS in the community was just mainly on malaria prevention due to survey reports that found at the clinic and in the communities that malaria was very high. In addition to this we have a counseling room at FHS. We had three clients who were counseled and referred them to St. Mary’s Mission for them to be tested for HIV, but unfortunately the clients were not able to be tested due to lack of testing tools at this time.
To end up, FHS was very busy in the field informing and sensitizing on malaria prevention and requesting of new activities which could be done at FHS and therefore people in the communities were very much thankful for the information taken to them.
By Given C.In the first position I would like to clarify the way FHS started. Before we started FHS it was called FAAP. After, we have improved our services and finally changed to FHS. During our work, our main goals in FHS are to go around in the community, to give informational health talks, give workshops, and to asses vulnerables so that they are sent or rather referred to other clinics. As of now FHS is likely to help the lives of many people and give them firs aid. As well, we are starting a new programme to help treat malaria. I’m really happy with this new programme we have started, we hope the motivation we have from our PM will continue so that we can achieve our goals.
By Given C.FORGE Health Services is a FORGE project which deals with health matters in Meheba Refugee Settlement. FHS is located at the FORGE Compound.
As for this month the first week of November we were very committed with preparation of the Grassroots Soccer Tournament which was going to take place on November 7th. On this day I was appointed to facilitate games and were able to teach 500 children about HIV/AIDS using these games.
In the same month we had four sensitizations on various health topics at the Block B Clinic and in addition I distributed a hundred condoms in the Block D community. Then by the end of November we had an SGBV workshop where as we were told to go in the community schools and clinics to sensitize people in the community on SGBV and teach them where to be reporting these cases. This was part of the sixteen days of activism against SGBV.
FHS is connected to other health centres and I really thank my Project Manager for being honest and cooperative to the FHS programme.
By Given C.I, Mary, started the training on how to use Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) to find malaria and took two weeks for this training. During the training the coordinator at ‘B’ Clinic taught a lot of things, even how to treat uncomplicated malaria and complicated. Here I learned that the first treatment to give to a person with high fever is Foartem, second in Quinine and Fansidar is just for prevention. During the training I tested 13 clients. Seven were positive and six negative. Those who were positive, the coordinator could just give them Coartem. During this same time Given was attending a counselling and SGBV workshop held at the FORGE compound.
We had Under Five Clinic at FHS. People were happy that we should continue doing it at our centre. Because most people don’t go for Under Five due to how far it is, so we invited the ‘B’ Clinic coordinator to FHS to do the Under Five weight and vaccines.
We also went into the community to meet the leaders to talk about health education and inform them of the new programme we want to start of preparing or cooking food, which needs to be donated by themselves. The community leaders agreed with the programme and we were told to wait so that they inform the whole community at roads 27,21, and 25.
By Given C.F.H.S stands for FORGE Health Services. As mentioned, this project deals with health matters in the community. FHS is located in Block ‘C’ in Meheba Refugee Settlement at FORGE compound.
This project has two employees, one male and one female, carrying out the activities in the project. The main responsibilities of this project are: Firstly, to asses the community through outreach where as to identify vulnerable people in the community with health related problems and then refer them to the nearest rural health centre for further clinical management. Secondly it has the programme of disseminating information on various health problems at clinics and in the community. Thirdly we asses the community through outreach and then find the problem affecting that particular area of the community and therefore, organize a workshop depending on the situation found. We then rank the problems in order for us to see which topic to come first and then which topic is less important to cover in the community.
As stated above, FHS is one of the highly committed FORGE projects and it has a big job to do. In July, FHS was involved in so many activities such as a nutrition survey which was camp-wide, a Teenage Pregnancy Awareness Campaign with the UNHCR that was also camp-wide with FHS canvassing Block B, C, and G in the schools and in the community. FHS staff is not found in one place but are mobile because most of the work is in the community.
To end up, I would like to thank my Project Manager for good cooperation and assistance shown to this project for good health project progression this month.
By Given C.
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