FIRST AID CLINIC
Public health care is practically free in Ethiopia, at least for the poor, but it takes great effort as you need to go through a whole procedure for registration etc. The Patient also needs to go to buy medicine and other things needed as hospitals do not always have such things in stock.
To many Ethiopians, going to a health clinic is a big challenge, both financially and practically.
Most of the clients of My Sisters are on their own, and some do not read. This makes it difficult for them to find their way in a public hospital where you go by the signs.
Clients can come to the My Sisters first aid clinic with any problem or question. If it calls for further testing or treatment, we assist them to go to a larger clinic or hospital, paying the bill.
Many things can be treated by a nurse, however, and will be handled by our very competent and well experienced nurses who know all of our clients, their children and their background.
Clients who are too ill or old to come to the clinic, receive house calls on a regular basis by a home visitor from My Sisters who takes care of medicine, food, cleaning, or cooking.
In the files of My Sisters there are well over 4000 clients, each representing a household, meaning a woman and the children living with her.