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PROJECTS IN HEALTH




A training program for TBA’s [Traditional Birthing Assistants].

Materials are being developed in a storybook format to teach rural village women, who are almost all nonreaders, proper midwife training.  Funds are needed for the printing of 6,000 copies of the workbook and teaching aids.  Several members of the medical community in Memphis have committed to deliver the workbooks and lead the training with the new material in the spring of 2003.

5,000 Stethoscopes.

This is a project that was requested by the Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan as part of the Memphis Afghan Friendship Summit.  Through medical groups and fellowships in the Memphis area, 5,000 stethoscopes are being collected and will be delivered to healthcare workers throughout Afghanistan.  New and/or used stethoscopes can be donated. Money is also being collected to purchase repair parts.  540 stethoscopes have already been collected as of the end of February, 2003.

Birthing Kits. 

The Baptist College of Allied Health Sciences has taken the lead in working with local hospitals and other institutions to procure supplies and package them into disposable kits that will be distributed throughout the country.  We also have the opportunity to work with the Ministry of Public Health develop a small business to produce the kits for ongoing use. Our goal is to send 2,000 kits and bulk supplies to Afghanistan in the early spring.  Financial assistance is needed for this project to provide supplies that are not donated and must be purchased.

Medical Lecture Series.  

Training is needed at all levels of healthcare in the country of Afghanistan. Nurses, medical technicians, and physicians of any specialty are needed for short-term teaching assignments in one of the hospitals or universities in Kabul. Trips are two weeks in length. The first team of lecturers will be in Kabul, Afghanistan the week of November 11, 2002, and other teams will follow in the spring of 2003.