The first day of courses related to access to primary medical care took place in December 2022.
Most families do not have access to medical care in rural areas where the foundation has been working for years. In most cases, a superficial or tiny wound does not heal. These untreated, minor injuries or illnesses lead to significant complications, an aggravation that can cause death.
If left untreated, the injury can put the lives of people and children in grave danger. This is why and for years, the foundation has been betting on an innovative project that aims to give teachers in outermost schools the means to save lives. During this first day of training, more than sixty teachers, representing some forty schools and thousands of children, were present to receive lessons from the foundation’s medical teams. Knowing how to use life-saving gestures, treating a fever before it gets worse, disinfecting a wound before it becomes infected, and treating an animal or a snakebite.
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Make people understand that so-called traditional medicines are not always the right ones. Using gasoline or motor oil to disinfect a wound is not the right solution, and coffee grounds on an injury will only worsen it. The Regent of the Sumba region is with his wife; we are happy to attend part of the lessons. They were amazed because we set up, in particular, the original publications that the foundation produced to provide educational support to teachers.
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The foundation’s medical teams have made a book of fifteen original modules, each taking up a medical theme that we have developed within the framework of these training courses.
