Lalmba empowers rural communities with good basic health care and arms them with the means to eradicate preventable disease. We facilitate a wide range of direct patient services, including primary health care with lab and pharmacy on-site, HIV and TB programs, and malnutrition intervention.
Laboratory staff assist in accurately diagnosing patients with a multitude of diseases such as malaria, HIV, schistosomiasis, tapeworms, intestinal worms, and tuberculosis.
Pharmacy staff distribute medicines and oversee antiretroviral medicines for HIV patients. Education includes training mothers and fathers on how to prepare and administer Oral Rehydration Solution to prevent dehydration in sick children.
We provide labor and delivery services in our clinics to help combat high maternal and infant mortality rates. Our health centers offer prenatal care, and transport of women with obstetric emergencies to the nearest referral hospital.
For children and infants at risk of imminent death from malnutrition, our inpatient unit administers therapeutic feeding formulations, counsels parents regarding nutrition, and offers participatory cooking classes.
Our staff works in these remote communities providing critical care to people with no other options.
To ensure that local mothers have optimal outcomes during delivery, public health outreach trips include provision of routine prenatal care to pregnant women to ensure that vaccinations are up to date, appropriate medicines and vitamins are taken, and that complications during delivery can be prevented.
Lalmba staff strive to improve the health of children through vaccinations, nutrition education, deworming, and treatment of malnutrition and acute childhood illnesses, both in the clinic and on public health outreach trips. Factoid: In Keffa, Ethiopia 12 in 100 children die before they reach their 5th birthday.
Lalmba’s approach to health education includes methods like school presentations, market dramas, and local sessions led by nurses to teach about HIV prevention and other diseases such as cholera and tuberculosis. This inclusive strategy aims to empower communities with knowledge and tools for preventing a wide range of health issues.
In areas where most people live a few kilometers from the nearest road, Lalmba staff bring health services to local communities through mobile clinics, which offer prenatal care, vaccinations, well child care, and community education.
Lalmba Association, Headquarters
PO Box 2516, Monument, CO 80132
USA
lalmba@lalmba.org
720-260-6785
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