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An insight into the
current state of
health services
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Family Care provides short-term emergency interventions designed to evolve
into longer term development programmes. The aim of such is to alleviate
immediate suffering followed by the attainment of sustainable change through
capacity building, enabling people to ultimately manage and improve their
own lives.
Family Care's strategy and interventions are based on careful observation
of the reality of the local situation and of peoples' lives and the problems
they face, in order to answer their needs effectively.
Family Care's principal role is to address universal needs but the organisation
also offers immediate direct assistance where this can help individual
families to overcome critical circumstances.
The organisations main areas of work are :
- Comprehensive upgrading of health services, particularly maternal
and newborn, to support the development of a system that provides a
safe environment in which priority is given to well being and care.
This includes the following:
- Detailed and accurate assessment of each hospital and health
facility in order to provide the most appropriate and cost effective
response to their needs.
- Structural renovation of hospitals and health facilities along
with the provision of equipment, furniture and supplies.
- Strengthening initiatives which promote the professional development
of health staff and the provision of training which upgrades knowledge,
skills and practice.
- Promoting the rights of individuals and families to information
which allow them to make self determined choices regarding health
care and its cost.
- Improving the primary health care services and outreach services
for isolated rural communities through support to both rural health
facilities and mobile health units.
- Strengthening of management and health information systems which
improves both quality and continuity of care.
- Promoting the well being of individuals and families who lives are
severely constrained by difficult social circumstances and poverty,
though culturally based activities and support to family based enterprises.
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