Tobacco Shed Clinic

Tobacco Shed clinic

Our Matete Clinic in Malawi is on the West Coast of beautiful Lake Malawi.  The region may be beautiful but amenities are few and far between.

As, Jere, our HealthEd Connect Representative recently wrote after his visit:

At Matete Clinic there are only 2 volunteers, one Sinkhani volunteer, one village volunteer. Women came with their babies in large number. We waited the HSA [Government employee] of the area from 8.00 A M up to 9.30 A M. because of his late I told the volunteers to start weighing babies and after this will start to teach mothers, then we started with weighing babies.

  Very late around 12.30 it was when the HSA arrived the place and he found that we have already completed weighing babies.  After his arrival, he gave me an assignment of teaching mothers without notice, but immediately I agreed to do the assignment, because the place has no toilets, and other people are bringing foodstuff to sell without water. So my lesson was about a hygienic lesson.

Go Jere!!!  What a trooper!  Weighing babies in a tobacco shed and then even providing a health lesson for the mothers....