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Merrueshi Village Clinic

"We would like to be agents of our change rather than victims of change." Kakuta Ole Maimai, Managing Director, Maasai Association.

MISSION

Merrueshi Village Clinic is providing basic healthcare services to nearly 5,000 Maasai residents of Merrueshi and the surrounding communities. Merrueshi Village Clinic makes sure that beneficiaries receive acute and emergency medical services at the most reasonable cost in the local area. The clinic emphasizes on health education, prevention, treatment, vaccination, and nutrition education for mothers and their children.

OBJECTIVES

• Make basic health care services available for the Maasai pastoralists in Merrueshi and surrounding villages

• Save mothers and their children from common and preventable diseases

• Improve health care needs for the entire community

 

CLINIC FACILITIES

  • Administration room
  • Two exam rooms
  • A dispensing pharmacy
  • Laboratory facility
  • In-patient unit for seriously ill patients
  • Staff housing
  • Voluntary counseling and testing center for HIV/ Aids

 

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Please donate $25 and help us immunize Maasai children against measles, polio, TB, and other vaccine-preventable diseases.

News & Updates

Emergency Vehicle for the Village Clinic

We are pleased to report that we purchased emergency vehicle for Merrueshi Village Clinic. The emergency vehicle will make it possible for our medical team to reach villages in the outline areas and bring vital medical services to patients in need of urgent medical attention. Emergency vehicle is a significant complement towards our goal to avert mother and infant mortality in the region.

Basic medical lab is complete

We are pleased to report that Merrueshi Village Clinic recently opened a medical lab. The lab is equipped with basic but essential supplies and equipment for a rural health facility. We were fortunate to find a trained Maasai lab technician in Nairobi for the lab. The new lab has enabled our medical team to effectively diagnose and treat residents of Merrueshi and surrounding villages.

Trachoma Program with African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF)

Together with AMREF we implemented the trachoma program at Merrueshi Village Health Center. Several individuals have been treated and released. The program is still in progress throughout the 2010.

Maasai Association HIV/Aids Awareness Program

We are continuing the HIV/Aids awareness initiative with a purpose to educate and inspire local people to protect themselves and come forward for voluntary counseling and testing. Primary and secondary schools are among the beneficiaries of the HIV/Aids awareness program. Nearly 5,000 villagers and school children are benefiting from this program.

Merrueshi Village Clinic

Over 5,000 Maasai people living in Merrueshi and neighboring communities now have access to basic healthcare services that they did not have before. We are grateful for your continuous support. Click to see the latest pictures from the clinic

 

Merrueshi Village Clinic is sponsored by Maasai Association - a community-based non-profit organization 501 (c)(3) and NGO based in Bellevue, WA and Kajiado Central District of Kenya. The organization’s humanitarian and relief work is aimed at building schools, water systems, providing academic scholarship to disadvantaged children, and supporting sustainable economic development projects in the Maasai region

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