ICROSS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE AFRICA
ICROSS extends primary health care programmes. For 30 years, the emphasis of ICROSS primary care has been improving immunisation, creating support mechanisms for public health and community medicine and establishing innovations in disease control, reproductive health and nutrition. In 1981 the founder Dr Michael Meegan launched his first disease control programme. This focused on disease supplements that would benefit children under five and women in the post natal stage.
Immunisation programmes have since the beginning of our programmes reached 14 districts and in all of our operational clinical services, we are immunising 90% of children between 9 months and 4 years old. Every ICROSS clinic and programme is based upon community responsibility and ownership in managing their primary healthcare/public health programme. ICROSS has greatly expanded the concept of primary health care. It includes social equity, reproductive health responsibility and safe sex. The rights of women to choose comprehensive child survival and focused safe motherhood. The centre of our primary health care programme‘s measurable impact in maternal and child health.
When Prof David Morley began working with ICROSS in 1981, he introduced the fundamental concept of children teaching children basic health promotion. A critical component of the success was the fact that the communities owned the decision making and the health prioritisation. Today (20th April 2011), we are extending the work created by Prof David Morley and building new diarrhoea control, neonatal tetanus and neonatal control. The success of reproductive health interventions have resulted in a dramatic decrease in maternal morbidity, mortality and suffering. We remain committed to the long term reduction in neonatal tetanus, malaria, trachoma, sexually transmitted infection, tropical dermatitis, water borne diseases and all preventable diseases cause by injustice, poverty and hunger.
Dr Michael Meegan met today with Ministry of Health nurses working in ICROSS programmes to discuss strategies for improvements in ICROSS long term disease prevention and public health activities. In partnership with the govt of Kenya and working within the UN, UNICEF, and WHO frameworks, ICROSS is building long term strategic policies for and with communities that will determine the long term focus of our maternal child health care for the next decade
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Michael Meegan lectures on poverty and suffering
The Founder of ICROSS Dr Michael Meegan gave a series of talks recently on global health and the changes in World poverty. Here are some extracts from a lecture on “ the rise of poverty in a rich world “
“We are divided just think about this for a moment the 200 richest people in the World own more than the 400 million poorest and 48 poorest countries account for less than 0.4% of global exports. Worse still According to the World bank the 500 richest people in the world own more than 50% of humanity.
50,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the conscience of the world. Being powerless and vulnerable in life makes these dying people even more invisible in death. That is about 210,000 children each week, or almost 11,000,000 children under age 5, each year. “
“ Its easy to get lost in the numbers the figures are overwhelming. 1.3 billion have no access to clean water; 3 billion have no access to sanitation; over a third of the planet have no access to electricity.”
“Think about our priorities here , 12% of the world's population uses 85% of its water. These 12% do not live in the Third World.”
This is why ICROSS and our partners remain committed to fighting poverty and the engines that drive the causes of poverty and suffering . unless we understand the forces and realities behind the numbers we simply observe the inevitable cycles and patterns that generate inequality. Unless the numbers become real people in our hearts we will watch them die. “
We will be sharing more extracts from lectures by Dr Michael Meegan throughout 2011.
“We are divided just think about this for a moment the 200 richest people in the World own more than the 400 million poorest and 48 poorest countries account for less than 0.4% of global exports. Worse still According to the World bank the 500 richest people in the world own more than 50% of humanity.
50,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the conscience of the world. Being powerless and vulnerable in life makes these dying people even more invisible in death. That is about 210,000 children each week, or almost 11,000,000 children under age 5, each year. “
“ Its easy to get lost in the numbers the figures are overwhelming. 1.3 billion have no access to clean water; 3 billion have no access to sanitation; over a third of the planet have no access to electricity.”
“Think about our priorities here , 12% of the world's population uses 85% of its water. These 12% do not live in the Third World.”
This is why ICROSS and our partners remain committed to fighting poverty and the engines that drive the causes of poverty and suffering . unless we understand the forces and realities behind the numbers we simply observe the inevitable cycles and patterns that generate inequality. Unless the numbers become real people in our hearts we will watch them die. “
We will be sharing more extracts from lectures by Dr Michael Meegan throughout 2011.
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