Asia and The Middle East: Indonesia

A Mobile Health Caravan - With modifications such as air-conditioning, retractable awning for portable clinic area, and lowered roof to manoeuvre in rural areas with low trees and wires – was purchased and will be travelling to areas still recovering from a devastating earthquake and unusually active subsequent rainy season in the Central Java region of Indonesia. The mobile unit will be equipped to provide general and specialized care for earthquake victims in Bantul District near Jogyakarta. This district was devastated by the earthquake in May 2006 with only five of its 26 health facilities now functional. The clinic will begin its services in March and will offer paediatric care, psychotherapy, physical therapy, health worker training, and data collection and surveillance.

Improving Health & Healthcare - In the Nagan Raya District - an area with nearly 11,000 displaced persons due to the tsunami - Project HOPE will introduce the World Health Organization's Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses to local health workers from both the Village Health Posts and from the district level. Training will include topics such as tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhoea disease, pneumonia case management, maternal and newborn care, and immunisation.

Community Midwifery Programme - In Aceh Jaya District, Project HOPE will create sustainable improvements in health service delivery for women/children at the household and community level by providing training and equipment support to midwives. Training will incorporate education about clean deliveries, emergency planning, haemorrhages, and obstetric risks.

Timeline
1960 Maiden voyage to Indonesia. (Healthcare training and treatment on S.S. HOPE).
1986 Project HOPE collaborated with the University of Indonesia to implement a paediatric critical care/intensive care nursing certification programme, a biomedical engineering training programme, and the development of an infection prevention procedures manual at the Rumah Sakit CIPTO Mangankusamo (RSCM) Hospital in Jakarta.
1989 Project HOPE began implementing a joint in-service education programme for midwives and physicians in West Java at the University of Indonesia, Centre for Child Survival. The training covered communication and counselling skills, motivation, adult teaching methodologies, and leadership for the midwife/physician teams.
1997 Project HOPE Japan began implementing a Medical Follow Up Programme (equipment donation/repair) in Bali. This programme provided donations of specific medical devices and spare parts, and added preventive measures training for physicians and biomedical engineers based in three hospitals in Bali.
1999 Project HOPE developed a formal biomedical engineering training programme in Bali. The focus of this training programme was to improve the technical skills of biomedical engineers and provide modern techniques for the repair and proper maintenance of medical equipment.
1999 Project HOPE began implementing a dental health programme in Bali, sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Over 15,000 elementary school children in 52 schools received dental health care education. Another important component to the programme was the training of 60 Indonesian dentists in modern day dental practices.
2005 Project HOPE sends more than £ 5.5 million in response to Indian Ocean tsunami. Later started to implement a IMCI programme in Nagan Raya region of Aceh District, one of the hardest hit districts of the tsunami.
2006 Project HOPE sends more than £1 million in response to a 6.2 earthquake in Central Java.
2007 Project HOPE implements a 3 year IMCI programme in Aceh Barat, a region of the Aceh district that was hit hardest by the 2004 tsunami.
  Today, 2009 and Project HOPE’s work continues........................
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