Every month, our project manager in Myanmar Su Myat Oo (called Su Su) sends us a summary of the activities at the Irrawaddy River Doctors and at the mother and child center. She also gives us an insight into the current situation in the politically unstable Myanmar and the impact this is having on the local people.
We reproduce her impressive report in the original English language. Here are her observations for the month of November.
Dear Dr.Veronika,
How are you and everyone? I hope you all are fine and we all are doing well too.I am writing a monthly overview report for IRD November trip and activities. Our team had undergone the medical trip from 1st to 23rd November and provided our medical treatment to 10 villages.
The ICD result showed that there are 2275 of total patients. Among these patients, 71 are pregnant women taking AN care, a total 245 are boys and girls under 15 years old who took medical check-ups and treatment while 30 in number are under one year old. We did screening test regarding comprehensive AN care to 50 pregnant women and a total of 157 patients did laboratory testing in this month. Furthermore, we provided deworming to 200 patients in total.
During this month, our team provided the general medical treatment such as Idiopathic Anaemia, Urinary Tract Infection and Rheumatic Fever according to the signs and symptoms of the patients and the laboratory test results. Furthermore, our team provided treatment for Non-Communicable Diseases such as Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, Stroke and more. In this month, we had random blood sugar testing to 288 patients whose BMI were above 23. And we also did Electrocardiogram (ECG) testing to 536 new patients who were above 40 years old. Furthermore, patients with acute respiratory tract infection, asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), migraine, sinusitis, gastritis and many other health problems came to our boat to get treatment.
Our Dentist and our team provided dental treatment to 361 patients.
In conclusion, thanks again and again to Artemed foundation and all donors for your continuous support and love for Myanmar operation. I am very happy to be able to work together with trust until today. And we will try our best to help poor and needed people in future.
Susu
News from the Mother and Child Center, Bogale
In November, a particularly large number of 30 little Burmese boys and girls were born at the MCC.
Take a look at our baby gallery: all children born at the MCC are welcomed here.
