06/07/2024
I’m collecting again for this years visit: any unwanted meds (in date), massage equipment, bandages, compresses, strips, scissors, medical pliers, vitamins and/or minerals to spare.
Friends of Kafountine Red Cross Clinic
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To raise awareness of the need for medical supplies and financial support in a country with no NHS .
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Healthcare in Casamance
There is no National Health Service, or equivalent, in Senegal and all visits to hospital clinics and prescribed medicines have to be paid for. Since it can be difficult to pay for food on a daily basis, people frequently choose to visit traditional healers in the first instance or a first aid clinic. The mortality rate was estimated in 2017 at 8.1 deaths/1,000 population (compared to 9.4 in the UK), although many deaths are not recorded and the cause of death is frequently explained as 'he was sick' or 'it was his stomach'.
Kafountine Red Cross Clinic
Diadia Sambou, has responsibility for all first aid provision in the Kafountine Community, which covers nineteen villages and extends to the islands. He paid for and built his own Red Cross First Aid clinic in Kafountine and has run it for twenty-eight years. He is responsible for three volunteers in his own clinic and a further twenty-five volunteers in Kafountine, Albadas, Abene and Diannah. In addition, he has seventeen volunteers covering the nearby islands. He has papers giving him this jurisdiction from the government office in Bignona.
Diadia had an intensive two year Red Cross diploma level training in 1999, after which he continued his professional development by attending a number of other courses, including theory, sport and child protection. Since then he has been freely sharing his time and knowledge and began training other people.
