Medical Centres in Central African Republic

Bangui SOS Medical Centre

The SOS Medical Centre, Bangui, treats about 7,500 people in the local community including 1,500 children. The treatments include ante- and post-natal consultation, vaccinations and health education, including prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS related illness. The SOS Medical Centre of Bangui achieves its mission of medical coverage as well as for the children of the SOS Children's Village and the staff from the surrounding community.  It also manages the medical branches of the programme of medical care of the OVC (orphaned and vulnerable children) part of the Family Reinforcement programme.

During 2008, a total of 2,505 new consultation has been achieved. 305 old patients have been consulted again. There are 71 cases of children and children from the SOS Children's Village among the new consultations. The operation of vaccination have been oriented to 3,337 children from to 55 years old 155 women in state of pregnancy (pregnant women) and the operation of CEI spread to 1,425 patients and 26 mothers and Aunts.

Concerning the nutritional caretaking, it has been, in 2008, about the following targets:

• Transmission (of HIV) programme parents/children (TPPC) = 88 persons
• Ill-nutritional children = 658
• Small weighed women (sucking babies and pregnant) = 399
  

Concerning the caretaking or medical programme of the OVC, will be tended to estimate that 399 persons have been consulted for the treatment of infection s at random (opportunist infections), 99 are under treatment by MTC (Bactrim) and 58 others are treated to RVA.

In the field of maternal and infantile Health/family Planning, 40 gynaecological consultations, have achieved 525 pre-natal consultations and 528 families planning. However, the SOS Medical Centre does not have a maternity room.

The number of laboratory consultations has spread with the use of the spectrophotometer. 2,572 analysis have been achieved during the year.

Bangui SOS Social Centre

The SOS Social Centre, Bangui, works with the local community to help orphaned and vulnerable children and their families. This includes working with the World Food Programme to ensure vulnerable children are fed.