We need your help. You can make a
difference!
•Help
bring health care services to
60+ poor villages (over 55,000 patients)
in India.
•Help save children from blindness
and malnutrition.
•Help save young lives by expanding
the vaccination program, launching
baby delivery and in-patient services.
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International Village
Clinic (IVC) is dedicated to bringing health |
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Situation in Villages: •Nutritional deficiency is rampant. For example, babies develop cataract due to Vitamin A deficiency often resulting in blindness. •High infant mortality (130 out of 1,000 compared to 12 out of 1,000 in the U.S.) • One of the highest death rates of women during child birth • Tuberculosis is spreading at a high rate. • Dire need for safe, inexpensive baby delivery service. • In-patient service is badly needed.
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 Baby with Spina Bifada |
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•No adequate basic medical facilities. •Most patients depended upon unqualified practitioners for treatment. •No effective vaccination program for children. •Fewer than 5% of the villagers can •No ambulance service in the area. |
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 IV administration to diarrhea and dehydration patients |
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| What are we providing? | ||||
| •A mobile clinic to serve 60+ villages. •Emergency service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. •Ambulance service to transport emergency cases to the city hospitals. •Vaccination program for children and pregnant women.
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 Mobile clinic at site #1 |
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 Child vaccination |
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 Child given oral vaccination for Polio |
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•Nutrition program for children and
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 Prenatal Care |
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| •Basic health education. |  Health Education clinic |
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| •In-patient care: 6 bed female ward and a six bed male ward |  In-patient care in the new clinic building |
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•Well equipped baby delivery/maternity facility and service |
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•Diagnostic services: x-ray, ultrasound, ECG |
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