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Medical Care
| By the Numbers... |
| 100 community patients seen by FAME doctors bi-monthly 8 community patients seen daily by RVCV nurse 450 students receive new health education curriculum 450 students receive yearly health screening |
On the coffee plantations surrounding RVCV, access to health care is all but non-existent. The nearest clinic is more than an hour away by foot, the nearest hospital is three times as far. Not only is distance a barrier to care, a visit to a doctor is often prohibitively expensive. Recognizing the acute need for access to medical care, in 2006 RVCV began partnering with the Foundation for African Medicine and Education (FAME), to host free medical clinics for the community. Twice a month, FAME doctors and nurses come to RVCV and provide free medical consultations and treatment for the community. On average, FAME’s doctors see 100 patients during each two-day clinic.
In addition to hosting these bi-monthly clinics, RVCV employs a full time nurse practitioner who deals with the medical needs of the RVCV community and works at Gyetighi to meet the needs of the faculty and students there. Along with providing medical care, our nurse practitioner teaches a basic health and reproductive health course at Gyetighi (see Community Health Ed). This class is the first of its kind in the region, and is aimed at increasing student and community awareness around medical issues ranging from cleanliness and disease prevention to sexually transmitted diseases and domestic abuse. 
RVCV has also hosted the Mary A. Tidland Charitable Foundation, which brings volunteer doctors and nurses to complete well child healthcare screenings in local primary schools. Prior to 2010, RVCV has worked with the Tidland Foundation to provide screenings to three primary schools in district and will continue to do so. RVCV’s efforts to provide access to medical care in the community reflects its broader mission of promoting the welfare of marginalized children throughout the district. This section is to edit the content under the navigation and will be seen under the navigation when the site is live
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