{"id":175,"date":"2014-11-14T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T16:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/?p=175"},"modified":"2015-05-14T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T12:15:01","slug":"first-village-clinic-building-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/first-village-clinic-building-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Region: First village clinic building now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Photo: Khuzi village clinic building constructed jointly by community members and\u00a0Inter Aide<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the 12th November 2014 the first village clinic constructed with assistance from Inter Aide was handed over to the government at Khuzi. Khuzi is the most remote part of the <a title=\"Location\" href=\"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/location\/\">Katchale Health Center catchment area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The building includes a small house for Mr. Banda, the Health Surveillance Assistant (HSA) with an attached clinic room and waiting area. Community members donated their time to mold bricks and to bring sand and quarry stones to the construction site. Inter Aide provided the iron sheets, cement, wood, fittings and skilled labor. This activity\u00a0was part of the <a title=\"Documents\" href=\"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/documents\/\">2014 Memorandum of Understanding<\/a>\u00a0between all the project stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>Previously Mr. Banda used to travel to Khuzi two days per week to treat sick children under five\u00a0years old who had common illnesses, including malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia. Now that he is living in the community he will be available to treat sick children any day of the week. The building will also be used for vaccinations, growth monitoring and <a title=\"BLM extends family planning outreach service to Khuzi\" href=\"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/blm-extends-family-planning-outreach-service-to-khuzi\/\">family planning services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Program-photos-2014-235.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-178\" src=\"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Program-photos-2014-235-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Program photos, 2014 235\" width=\"669\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Program-photos-2014-235-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Program-photos-2014-235-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Mr. Banda treating sick children\u00a0before the new village clinic opened.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Khuzi village clinic building constructed jointly by community members and\u00a0Inter Aide On the 12th November 2014 the first village clinic constructed with assistance from Inter Aide was handed over to the government at Khuzi. Khuzi is the most remote part of the Katchale Health Center catchment area. The building includes a small house for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}