Giant Bandage in Qianmen Street！
Interns of Save the Children Beijing Office brought the giant bandage to Qianmen Street!
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
When Health Workers are Absent
Post natal care is something that many mothers and would-be mothers have heard about. Some of these have followed it up while others have simply ignored it for various reasons. Very few, perhaps even countable mothers will seek medical care within 28 days of giving birth unless the child develops a complication.
Midwifery: The most Honorable profession; but…
“I am proud to be a midwife. It is the most honorable profession on this planet. Delivering a baby is a very delicate thing to do. And when you look around you, all of us were delivered. Circumstances may have been different but we were all delivered one way or the other” says Ms. Joyce Tibasaaga, a retired midwife.
Autsch! Save the Children Team fordert mit Riesenpflaster mehr Gesundheitsmitarbeiter weltweit
Das gelbe Untersuchungsheftchen begleitet deutsche Kinder vom Kreissaal bis in die Grundschule. Alle Impfungen, Untersuchungen und Wachstumskurven sind dort nachzulesen. Viele Eltern überlegen, ob sie ihre Kinder überhaupt gegen alle möglichen „Kinderkrankheiten“ impfen lassen müssen oder ob das Antibiotikum wirklich gleich beim ersten Hüsteln sein muss. Die Gründe dafür sind ganz unterschiedlich, aber eins wissen wir sicher – wenn es hart auf hart kommt wird meinem Kind in der nächsten Klinik geholfen.
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Success story of a Lady Health Supervisor in UC Dheenda Haripur Pakistan
Success Story Lady Health Supervisor successfully trained to conduct skilled deliveries and antenatal checkups through Save the Children’s intervention
Nadia, 29, is a Lady Health Supervisor in Union Council (UC) Dheenda, Haripur, Pakistan. She is supervising 25 Lady Health Workers (LHW) in the area. According to Nadia, before the Family Health Centre (FHC) shifted to Meelam, LHW’s motivated antenatal women in their respective areas to come in for checkups however only those women who were living near the facility would visit. Read more
Super Hero Health Worker
Super Hero Health Worker http://healthworkerscount.org/superhero
An Innovative web and mobile phone website launches today allowing any ordinary person to become a Super Hero in just a few taps of the screen.
Available on all web browsers and accessible through smart phones, users upload their face, select which Super Hero Health Worker they want to be and in just a few seconds, they are virtually transformed into their favorite Health Worker character with the image automatically shared through their facebook and twitter accounts.
Let’s put health workers at the heart of global targets
With just over one month to go until world leaders meet at the United Nations in New York, we need to join together to demand that those who make the decisions listen – and act – ensuring that health workers are put at the heart of global targets like Millennium Development Goals 4, 5 and 6 which aim to reduce child and maternal mortality and combat diseases.
Without this these goals simply won’t be met and thousands of people will continue to die needlessly from entirely preventable diseases.
It’s simple; health workers save thousands of lives every year. We need to support the ones on the ground right now and train thousands more.
That’s why Merlin is joining with hundreds of other oganisation to call for more health workers, better supported.We hope you’ll get on board too!
To find out more about Merlin’s Hands Up For Health Workers campaign click here
Who is your Superhero?
When I was a kid I loved reading comic books. I liked the usual suspects; Batman, Superman, Spiderman, The Flash. They fought crime, saved lives and did it all as an alter ego, which to me meant I could have a boring life of school and homework during the day and beat up bad guys by night. In my mind anyone could become a superhero, you just needed a cool costume and big, strong arms.
Of course, as I grew up, finding a hero to identify with stopped coming so easily. There just aren’t that many people – real people – that can jump into action, prevent catastrophe and save the day. Or are there?
I can’t really imagine what life would be like today without all the doctor, nurse and health worker heroes that have helped me and my family over the years. Because they were there, childbirth went smoothly, vaccines protected us and our infections were cured. They even helped me overcome pneumonia when I was 2 years old!
In rural villages in countries like Mali and Nepal, local health workers stand out even more as the heroes they are. They deliver lifesaving care to mothers and children when doctors and hospitals are far away and challenging, if not impossible, to reach. Health workers like Felix and Ade, who we feature on the Good Goes site, don't make much money, and they often walk miles to get to the families who need them, but they are dedicated because they know their actions save lives.
Instead of a superhero utility belt equipped with weapons, health workers carry lifesaving gear in a bag or backpack. Antibiotics and rehydration salts are used to help overcome the biggest killers of children, pneumonia and diarrhea. Flash cards help teach lifesaving practices like breastfeeding and proper hygiene. And, like Spiderman, health worker heroes can even save the day with a net – a simple bed net in this case, which protects families from malaria.
Zap – evil mosquito! Ka-pow – dastardly diarrhea! Bam – pneumonia!
Who doesn’t think the world could use a few more superheroes?
Today there’s a global health worker crisis – not enough health workers and not enough training to activate the superpowers they could unleash. Save the Children and many other organizations are asking world leaders to address this crisis and take action at the United Nations meetings in September.
So help us celebrate the superhero health worker and spread the word about the need for more health workers! Click here to see how you would look as a superhero health worker and share it with your friends. Then up, up, up (on Facebook) and away!!!
Andrew
The Good Goes campaign team
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Village based midwifery care in Indonesia achieving 100% Breastfeeding rate
Blog by APPI/WRA Indonesia’s Ibu Robin Lim
World Breastfeeding Week at YAYASAN BUMI SEHAT
It’s dawn at the Yayasan Bumi Sehat Childbirth Center in the village on Nyuh Kuning, Bali, Indonesia. (Yayasan means not-for-profit organization, Bumi means the Earth as a Mother, Sehat means healthy). There are two women in labor, one is bouncing on a birth-ball, the other is walking in the hallway, and taking bites of the red rice cereal and egg, which her mother is spoon feeding her. As the sun rises, it is quiet enough to hear the birds singing. Read more
‘Health Workers Count’ Daily
Friday August 5th 2011
Stories from #healthworkers Hashtag on twitter
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