New Year, New Baby, New Hope
December 15, 2016
The 2016 New Years baby at the Zokhawthar Medical Center came a few days after New Years. A bouncing baby girl was born on January 6. The baby was delivered in our clinic by the midwife, Riegi and attended by our nurse/pharmacist, Emily, and nurses aid, Kilty. The clinic Medical Doctor, Dr. Zauva, was present and available for assistance if required.
The Medical Clinic in Zokhawthar, India, was largely built by and funded by MMC and is focused on providing medical care to displaced, poor, and impoverished Chin refugees from Burma who have fled to India as a consequence of the oppressive Military rule in Burma/Myanmar. The Clinic is fully funded by MMC and provides free medical care and medicines to those in need. The Clinic in Zokhawthar is staffed by a Doctor, Nurse/Pharmacist, Nurses Aid, Lab Tech and Janitor. In addition we have a Clinic in the nearby community of Champhai that is staffed by a Head Nurse, Nurses Aid and Janitor. In addition, we have a Country Manager who is responsible for hiring of staff, capital projects, local budget and all reporting to the Canadian project managers. The India/Burma Clinics are providing 24/7/365 day sustainable support that is directly helping the destitute and poor to achieve a better standard of living through improved health and sanitation as well as directly saving lives and providing needed medical care.
The Medical Clinic in Zokhawthar, India, was largely built by and funded by MMC and is focused on providing medical care to displaced, poor, and impoverished Chin refugees from Burma who have fled to India as a consequence of the oppressive Military rule in Burma/Myanmar. The Clinic is fully funded by MMC and provides free medical care and medicines to those in need. The Clinic in Zokhawthar is staffed by a Doctor, Nurse/Pharmacist, Nurses Aid, Lab Tech and Janitor. In addition we have a Clinic in the nearby community of Champhai that is staffed by a Head Nurse, Nurses Aid and Janitor. In addition, we have a Country Manager who is responsible for hiring of staff, capital projects, local budget and all reporting to the Canadian project managers. The India/Burma Clinics are providing 24/7/365 day sustainable support that is directly helping the destitute and poor to achieve a better standard of living through improved health and sanitation as well as directly saving lives and providing needed medical care.
Mother in black on the left, the newborn less than an hour old, and her 3 siblings
The mother of our first born infant was under the care of the MMC hired midwife throughout her pregnancy. She is a single Mom with 3 other children ranging in age from 3 to 16.(The 16 year older sister is not present as she had taken her Mother’s job walking long distances transporting goods on her head in order to maintain a meager income for this family) She is desperately poor living in a single room shack. There is no running water and toilet facilities. She cooks her rice over a wood charcoal fire. Her family struggles day to day to just feed themselves working in the lowest of menial jobs. On the day of her birth she arrived at the clinic and received excellent medical care delivering a healthy baby girl under safe and sanitary conditions. Without Medical Mercy Canada’s support this baby would have been born in the one room shack with no running water and squalid dirty conditions. Would the baby have survived in those conditions? Likely. But the Clinic not only provides for sanitary deliveries when everything goes right, but also is available with a trained Medical Doctor on site when everything goes wrong to give both mother and child a fighting chance for a healthy survival. And in this part of the world, surviving is sometimes about as good as it gets.
MMC Volunteers, Brenda and Neil shared this picture and the plight of this fatherless family with MMC donors in Canada while they were there. This brings us to the second part of this story;
NEW YEAR’S BABY, MOTHER AND FAMILY SUPPORTED BY CANADIAN FAMILY.
A Canadian family living in Calgary fell in love with this picture and decided to take it upon themselves to assist this family. With a donation of $500 this Canadian family has been able to pay the rent for this families living accommodation enabling the Mother to provide better care for her children and barter/buy more nutritious food for the family. This is having a dramatic impact on the family and is improving their standard of living. Canadian dollars can go so far in a country like India/Burma. Just $500 can make a huge difference.
NEW YEAR’S BABY, MOTHER AND FAMILY SUPPORTED BY CANADIAN FAMILY.
A Canadian family living in Calgary fell in love with this picture and decided to take it upon themselves to assist this family. With a donation of $500 this Canadian family has been able to pay the rent for this families living accommodation enabling the Mother to provide better care for her children and barter/buy more nutritious food for the family. This is having a dramatic impact on the family and is improving their standard of living. Canadian dollars can go so far in a country like India/Burma. Just $500 can make a huge difference.
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The picture to the left was taken of the family in August in their newly rented home this past August with MMC's Country Manager, NoKap. The New Year baby is 6 months old in the photo, and can be seen wearing pink. |
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