Sob Moi Distrikt / Thailand
Health care project for uprooted people in Sob Moi District
- Refugees are trained as "medics", local health assistants, for their work in the camp.
For already 17 years Malteser International has been responsible for the health care of two refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border with 34.500 refugees altogether.
Since March 2009 the curative care and the prevention programme inside the camps has been supported by the Health Care Project for Uprooted People in Sob Moi District.
Since 2005, refugees living in those two camps have been emigrating to third countries through resettlement programmes. This means that especially skilled, educated, and experienced camp staff will leave the camps. This will have a negative impact on the service delivery to the remaining camp population.
Specific problems addressed by the project are:
- The loss of qualified medical staff in the camps due to the resettlement process leads to difficulties to ensure quality primary health care in the camps and maintain the beneficiaries' health status.
- The Thai health care system at the district and commune level is not able to respond appropriately to health care problems in the surrounding villages and the camps due to financial and personnel constraints.
- There is little knowledge about health maintenance disease prevention among the refugee population and in the surrounding villages, which increases the risk for the spread of communicable diseases.
- Strengthening the local capacities in the field of basic health care
- Strengthening of the Thai health system on communal and district level
- Enhancement of the health care inside the camps and the surrounding villages through awareness campaigns and knowledge transfer
- Training of local camp personnel in the areas of basic health care, reproductive health, laboratory personnel and nutrition
- Health promotion and awareness campaigns for adolescents in reproductive health
- Set up and support of Mobile Malaria clinics
- Support for hospitals, health centres and health post with technical equipment, medicine and rehabilitation measures
- Training of Thai health workers
- Support to the local authorities on the set up of an transport and referral system
- Conduct awareness campaigns on HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and mother/child health care as well as communicable diseases
- Distribution of mosquito nets and conduct of measures for fighting Malaria and Dengue
| Project data | |
| Duration: | since March 2009 |
| Financing: | Malteser International, EuropeAid (European commission) |
| Partner: | Karen Refugee Committee, Provincial Health Office Mae Hong Son, District Public Health Office Sop Moi, Vector Borne Control Unit, Hospital, Health Centres, Health Posts and Community Health Workers |
| Personal: | 1 Project manager, 8 local Thai staff |
Contact | |
| Malteser: | Cordula Wasser |
| 0221-9822-187 | |
| info(at)malteser-international.org | |
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A hygiene quiz was organised for students and adults, as part of a hygiene awareness campaign.
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