El Mirete doctor of internal medicine of the Hospital de Torrevieja participated in a programme of cooperation in Kenya.
-the doctor collaborated in Lamu in a cooperation project for the improvement of the socio-sanitary conditions of the pediatric population
-Lamu is an archipelago that suffers from a precarious situation with few health benefits, high rate of tropical diseases and the transport difficulty
Torrevieja, July 2012.- Carlos Mirete optional service of internal medicine of the Hospital in Torrevieja , has traveled to Kenya, namely the island of Lamu, for two months to collaborate on a project of cooperation aimed at improving the socio-sanitary conditions of the local community, in particular, of the pediatric population.
Hospital Torrevieja has decided to support the initiative, supporting the optional with systems of dropper, as funding for local consultations. The overall objective of the project consists of that workforce contributes to the decline in the rates of morbidity of most common diseases in these areas, as they are especially infectious diseases.
Doctor Mirete, joined this project being piloted by the NGO Pablo Horstmann ”, an organization Spanish that eight years collaborates with pediatric hospitals in Kenya and Ethiopia. In this sense, the doctor Mirete voluntary colaborocomo to provide health care in consultation from the 9 a.m. last Sunday, June 24 until 5 p.m., an intensive day you tend to treat diseases common in children derived pathologies to malnutrition and others linked to infection and even HIV.
According to the NGOs through its website ( www.fundacionpablo.org ), the Pediatric Pablo Horstmann Hospital of nest, opened in April 2008, was designed to provide health coverage to all children in the District of Lamu, about 45,000 children.
Lamu is an archipelago located in the northeast coast of Kenya, who suffers a particularly precarious health be a rural environment with scarce health benefits, by the high rate of tropical diseases, as well as by the difficulty in the transport between the Islands.
The rate of malnutrition in children is between 17 and 40% according to the World Health Organization, having even declared the famine in some areas of the district in recent years. It is estimated that only 30% of Kenyans have access to drugs, and the infant mortality rate was 11.1% in Lamu in 2008.
