Growing up healthy

Ensuring children’s survival, protection and healthy development

In some parts of Sudan, communities have extremely limited access to health care. Last year, we set up a mobile health team (two medical workers and an administrator) to visit 21 villages at least once a month. The main purpose of the team was to provide check-ups to pregnant women who don’t have the means or money to travel to a clinic. The workers also trained 38 midwives, who created their own mobile clinics.  The difference was marked, as Wagar, a new mother, explained:

“It was my first pregnancy. When I was almost nine months pregnant, the health workers discovered that I had some problems, so they transferred me to Kosti hospital for more consultation. To my astonishment, this consultation was free. Because of all this care, I have had my first delivery safely.”