THE HEALTH PROGRAMME:

The main objective is to promote holistic health in communities with emphasis on Prevention (especially of the major killer diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS & other STDs); Primary Health Care, (eg. promotion of immunization programmes); Reproductive Health and Home-based Health and Palliative Care, in collaboration with Health Institutions working in Kumi District. Furthermore, promotion of good nutrition, provision of clean drinking water and hygienic environment and sanitation and setting up community Health Centres where some of the essential Health services will be set up to be closer to communities. 

An additional objective is to set up services that support the building of stable and functioning families in the communities, which include Family Planning and marriage-counseling services.

Current Projects:        A Hospice Project for Palliative Care Services, was, started in 2006. It is run jointly in partnership with a local Mission Hospital (Ngora Freda Carr Hospital), and is picking up slowly. Two Registered Nurses who underwent 9-month training course each in Clinical Palliative Care in 2006 to 2007, offer Palliative care treatment and other services.  Currently only one of the two Nurses is working at a very limited scale due to departure of the second Nurse for further training as well as the slow pace of training needed for the complete Multi-professional team required to set up the project. In addition inadequacy of equipment and facilities are limiting progress. This Hospice project will put emphasis on Home-based Care for its Palliative Care Services. This dictates immediate needs for training of Community Volunteers & Carers and provision of transport and other essential facilities.

In addition FADO-T Health Field Staff are working in three communities covering 480 families, planning and implementing activities with them, directed at addressing identified health problems and promoting good health and well-being. Some of these activities include: provision of clean drinking water; clean and hygienic living environment and sanitation – digging pit latrines, building bath shelters, racks for drying plates, proper refuse disposal, good feeding and nutrition especially for children, improving housing, acquisition of mosquito nets, sensitizing and educating communities on diseases (how they spread & prevented esp. malaria and HIV/AIDS).