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The Fair Future Foundation in East Indonesia is dedicated to eradicating social and medical injustices by ensuring access to healthcare, clean water, and education for all.

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· Primary Medical Care

Bringing care closer means investing in health workers

Bringing care closer means investing in the people who provide it. WHO warns that health worker shortages and unequal distribution still restrict access. In East Sumba, Kawan Sehat agents need continuing training, medical supervision, supplies and safe referral pathways. Leggi →

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About this author: Alex Wettstein is a health professional with 30 years of field experience in emergency medicine and social medicine. He is the founder of the Fair Future Foundation. Alex is the son of Axel Kahn, whose humanist values profoundly shaped his work.
Preveniamo la malaria invece di curarla!

Preveniamo la malaria invece di curarla!

da | Mag 2, 2023 | , ,

In questo "Immagine del giorno" shows you three children from Kabanda Village in East Sumba (read this post here), where the PMC program is in place. In this village, very far from everything, especially health centres, malaria is very active and wreaking havoc. We are talking about 80% bambini under 12 are affected. It is, therefore, essential to prevent and train families. This is what we are doing here.

The daily observations concerning the causes of malaria are multiple here. These include, in particular, the lack of access to health care, information on prevention methods, the unavailability of health centres and sanitation, and the growing resistance to antimalarial drugs for regions with access to these treatments.

A reminder for all Kawans: Malaria is transmitted by female mosquitoes of the "Genus Anopheles", throughout the East Sumba region. These mosquitoes breed in standing acqua, such as rainwater storage tanks and open water sources, most of the time in rural and deprived areas of East Sumba.

As Fair Future has repeatedly seen and repeated for years, the consequences of malaria are serious if nothing is done to treat it: High fever, severe headache, nausea and vomiting. If not treated quickly, the disease can progress and lead to severe complications, including kidney failure, anaemia, seizures and death.

It is essential to train families and rural communities to protect themselves from this disease to reduce its transmission. Also, by learning how to prevent and treat Malaria, rural families and communities will reduce the economic and social burden of the disease. Malaria entails high costs for families and communities, particularly medical expenses (if they can access them), school absenteeism, and reduced productivity.

As we apply it with the Primary Medical Care Programma (PMC), training families and rural communities to protect themselves from malaria contributes to strengthening the resilience of these populations in the face of epidemics of infectious diseases such as HIV, Tuberculosis, Gastroenteritis, cholera etc… 

Alexandre Wettstein from the Foundation’s Medico-Social Camp in East Sumba, Casa Kambera, Lambanapu, on the 2nd of May 2023

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Ridurre i rischi per la salute grazie a acqua pulita per le famiglie

Ridurre i rischi per la salute grazie a acqua pulita per le famiglie

da | Mag 1, 2023 | , ,

In questo "Immagine del giorno" shows you what children do several times a day: Fetch water for the family with some 5-litre jerrycans. Most of the time, the young girls take care of this. Here in this photo, it is a young child of ten years. There are no daughters in the family. He does this job instead of going to school. He and his family have only two litres or less of water a day for eating, drinking, bathing and everything else.

Unfortunately, like here in Tana Mbanas (Sumba Tenggah), there is still a vast majority of villages in Sumba that do not have access to clean drinking water. In these villages, the inhabitants often depend on surface water sources such as rivers, lakes or ponds, which bacteria, viruses, chemicals or by animals and insects mostly contaminate. 

The lack of clean water has severe consequences for the health of the inhabitants. Waterborne diseases, such as diarrea, cholera and typhoid, epatite A, Malaria e Dengue fever, are common where access to clean water and toilets is limited or absent. These diseases can be severe and even fatal, especially in children, pregnant women and the elderly.

To help villages without clean water in Sumba, Fair Future and Kawan Baik are implementing effective measures to improve access to clean and healthy water. Our solutions include drilling deep wells with our equipment, construction of water treatment plants, storage tanks, rainwater harvesting and storage, and installation of water management systems—irrigation and construction of healthy sanitation facilities.

We are still seeking funding and technical resources to set up sustainable, safe and clean water infrastructure in this region, one of the world's poorest and most dry.

Alexandre Wettstein from the Foundation’s Medico-Social Camp in East Sumba, Casa Kambera, Lambanapu, on Mai 1st, 2023.

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Assistenza medica per i bambini affetti da malaria

Assistenza medica per i bambini affetti da malaria

da | Apr 28, 2023 | , , ,

In questo "Immagine del giorno"Fair Future e Amici buoni Le équipe mediche forniscono assistenza medica a un bambino molto probabilmente colpito da Malaria. Ha meno di due anni e ha febbre di 40,6°C. I suoi sintomi corrispondono a questa diagnosi. Malaria. Gli diamo degli antidolorifici primary medical care per ridurre il suo raffreddore il più rapidamente possibile. Poi domani si recherà al centro sanitario più vicino, a più di tre ore di distanza dal villaggio.

Malaria è un grave problema di salute pubblica, soprattutto nelle aree ultra-rurali e povere dove Fair Future e Amici buoni Le fondazioni lavorano molto duramente. Malaria È una malattia potenzialmente mortale causata dal parassita Plasmodium e trasmessa agli esseri umani attraverso le punture dei moscerini Anopheles infetti. Bambini sotto i cinque e le donne in gravidanza sono particolarmente vulnerabili alla malaria, poiché il loro sistema immunitario è meno sviluppato e possono avere difficoltà a combattere l'infezione. Le persone affette da malattie croniche sono anche vulnerabili (HIV, Epatite, Malnutrizione, ecc.)

Le aree ultra rurali e povere come East Sumba sono particolarmente vulnerabili alla diffusione della malattia. Malaria a causa di fattori come la mancanza di acqua o la contaminazione acqua, condizioni di abitazione deplorevoli, mancanza di accesso alle cure sanitarie e alle misure preventive, inadeguatezza sanità… Inoltre, qui non abbiamo né farmaci antimalarici né test rapidi per rilevare la malattia. Questo rende il nostro lavoro di trattamento e prevenzione molto difficile.

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Valutazione del programma PMC a Kabanda

Valutazione del programma PMC a Kabanda

da | Apr 20, 2023 | , ,

Kabanda è davvero una delle località più isolate che abbia mai visto. Arrivarci è difficile, a volte addirittura pericoloso. Non c’è strada che porti a questo villaggio; solo sentieri estremamente ripidi o lastricati ci consentono di arrivare lì. Ci abbiamo messo oltre sei ore per arrivarci, compresi quattro ore di terreno davvero difficile con il Truck of Life, un camion medico 4×4 appositamente…

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Verificare la pressione sanguigna nell’ambito del programma PMC

Verificare la pressione sanguigna nell’ambito del programma PMC

da | Apr 13, 2023 | , ,

Questo nuovo "Immagine del giorno" shows you Mama Katerina, from the village of Lapinu, who is learning to take blood pressure with Dr Aldo. She knows what a systole is or a diastole is and from when and under what conditions there is hyper or hypotension. She will also learn to give appropriate medical treatment (Captopril) for high blood pressure.

As part of the Primary Medical Care program, Katerina and eight other "Kawan Sehat" health workers participate in this unique pilot experience. These women teachers can measure a patient's blood pressure and give appropriate medical treatment in case of hypertension.

It is a social and medical revolution, in our opinion. The fight and prevention of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases are essential here in the ultra-rural regions of eastern Indonesia. To be active and efficient, our medical teams provide knowledge and equipment (manual blood pressure measuring device, stethoscope) in each pilot village. They are five out of the thirty-five in which the PMC project is implemented.

This, for example, has led us to talk about active and passive smoking. To make it clear, tobacco is dangerous for your health, and it is also the cause of high blood pressure and, consequently, strokes, heart attacks, respiratory problems and a host of other related diseases at the cigarette shop.

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