RAY OF HOPE CLINIC & COMMUNITY CENTRE - AUGUST WEEK 1 REPORT

THE CLINIC

The month started on a low parse with outpatients dropping to 16 while maternity to 4.  This is attributed to high inflation affecting the whole country as hunger has taken its cause.

Looking around Kawangware, you will find that most of those who run small businesses along the road and who are the major support of the clinic are closing down as the locals cannot afford to buy their wares as they used to do before.

Across check, show deaths occurring in the homes, because they cannot go to hospital for medication and others are starving to death.  It is not only Turkana where the situation is worse but also in the slums.  The government is only highlighting Turkana because it is where the situation is worse.

The clinic is struggling again and the situation has gone back as it was sometimes last year and yet it was on its way to recovery.

Staff salaries – So far we have not been able to raise enough funds to pay salaries.  We are still collecting and hope we shall manage.

 CASH REALIZED

MATERNITY

DATE	AMOUNT PAID (USD)
1st August 3rd August 4th August 5th August 6th August 7th August	21.57 38.83 10.78 23.73 48.54 28.04
	171.49

OUTPATIENTS

DATE	AMOUNT PAID (USD)
1st August 2nd August 3rd August 4th August 5th August 6th August 7th August	15.10 57.71 59.33 68.18 77.24 63.64 48.54
TOTAL	389.74

The total was USD 561.83.

 EXPENSES

PARTICULARS	AMOUNT USD
DRUGS LOCUMS PARAFFIN PATIENTS FOOD SUPPLIES CITY HALL TRANSPORT ELECTRICITY WATER CLIENTS PORRIDGE STATIONERY MISC.	84.14 49.62 4.31 13.70 78.01 5.39 3.23 87.38 19.41 4.85 2.58 38.83
TOTAL	391.45

The expenses are high in the week, contributing to is as below:

-         Electricity rates have shot up because the KPLC is using generators to pump power instead of water as the rivers have dried up.

-         Locums are a bit low though still could be reduced but due to offs that employees must take.

-         Supplies – They are higher than previously due to the high priezes, which have short up.

                                                                                                     

                                                    

LEARNING CENTRE

Bernard Okoth is still in hospital.  The other children are fine; in fact for sometime now, none of them has come for treatment at the clinic.

Josh of Glide Church with their parents visited the clinic on Saturday 6^th and treated children with Chips, chicken and sodas. They then proceeded to Kenyatta National Hospital to visit Bernard.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

The support group met as usual on Thursday and we still serve them with porridge.

Rosemary Simiyu

7^th August 2011