Medical Outreach - Restarts in Kumasi

With a large number of medical volunteers now in Kumasi the weekly medical outreach trips have begun again. Here medical volunteers have the opportunity to get involved with the medical outreach program that Projects Abroad run. Now every Thursday sees volunteers visit a local area and help local children with some basic medical advice and treatment. Often a some of the poorer and more remote orphanages have very little resources to take children to a doctor, so a problem such as an infected mosquito bite can develop into a serious situation that our volunteers can address in these outreach programs, by cleaning and dressing the wounds and education both children and orphanage staff on preventative methods and good medical practices. Last month saw a visit to a local school and orphanage in Ampetia. Jessica Lowe explains how volunteers went to a local school and helped clean some of the children's wounds with antiseptic and plasters.

"Upon arrival we were rampaged by children keen to show us their wounds. The smaller wounds we dealt with and we also helped remove a lot of the puss that had built up due to the children neglecting their wounds. For the more serious injuries the local nurse who helps run the medical outreach would offer advice and when required suggest they visit hospital."

For many of the medical volunteers it gives them a great chance to get some hands on medical experience and to visit some areas which they would otherwise never get the chance to visit. Due to the positive response from our volunteers the Medical Outreach Programme will be now be running every week on Thursday with our local nurse.