E-drug: Community Pharmacies Burundi (cont'd)
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Trish,
I have attached a document that explains the new distribution model
we are developing in Kenya. It does not undermine the local health
centers because it operates in rural villages and actually increases
access to health care for the community. In fact, the model
established local dispensaries as satellites of centers and might be
used to extend the reach of health centers into the villages.
The idea is this: a short list of diseases is responsible for 70-90% of
serious childhood illness and death. These children congest local
health centers. By concentrating on treating these diseases in children
in the villages where they live, not only are they helped, but they do
not use as much service from health centers. That means that there is
more care available for others not so easily treated--increased access
to care for the whole community.
The model both treats sick children and increases access to care for
the rest of the community at the health center and hospital level.
We are presently implementing this in Kenya and hope to be fully
operational in as many as a dozen locations within the next couple of
months. Please feel free to use the ideas we share and to inquire
further. We must all work together to reduce the suffering and death
of the world's most innocent and voiceless victims--children in the
developing world.
Many thanks for your interest.
Scott Hillstrom
President, Cry For the World Foundation
e-mail: scott.hillstrom@analyticorp.co.nz
[The document "Essential drug market intervention; Pilot Franchise
Project Kenya" can be requested from the author. Hilbrand Haak, E-
drug co-moderator]
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