St John Kenya provides care in medical camps, January 2008
Posted: 15 April 2008
More than 300,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to the horrific violence which has torn through the East African nation following last December’s disputed elections.
St John Ambulance Kenya has been delivering medical care for a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) located in the eastern part of Nairobi. During one weekend in January, St John Ambulance estimated they have provided first-aid to 3,000 people, mostly women and children, in the camp in the southwestern part of the city. St John is also working in eight other regions across Kenya.
The team has been primarily treating wounds and contusions, and distributes medicine and sanitary products. As one of the volunteer comments, “sometimes we also have to provide psychological or social support. Many of the already very poor have now also lost their homes and work places, which can lead to aggression.”
Due to overwhelming humanitarian need in the country, the Order has provided emergency funds to enable St John Kenya to purchase new ambulances. Access to some of the worst affected areas of the current unrest is only possible by ambulance and the need to transport patients to and from medical care is paramount.
St John Kenya have also been supported by the Order of St John’s sister organisation in Germany, Johanniter with a grant of 20,000 Euros and have been promised a further grant by the German Foreign Ministry, through the German Embassy in Kenya to purchase essential medical and emergency supplies.
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