How Our Mobile Clinics Reach the Last Village on the Road

Two vehicles, a refrigerated case of vaccines, a clinician and a driver who knows which river crossing is passable in March. That is a mobile clinic, and it reaches people no fixed building ever will.

Each route is planned around the villages that are furthest from a health post, then repeated on the same weekday so people can rely on it. Predictability is the whole product; a clinic that arrives at random is a clinic nobody waits for.

Roughly a third of the caseload is injury: burns, farm wounds, falls. Another third is maternal and child health, and the rest is chronic conditions that go untreated simply because the nearest pharmacy is two days away.

We refer anything we cannot treat, and we pay the transport, because a referral a family cannot afford to act on is not a referral.

The program runs on the medicine budget your donations fund and on the clinicians who give us a week of their year. Both are always needed.