{"id":116,"date":"2008-08-02T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/mukunis-katapazi-clinic\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T12:43:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T12:43:34","slug":"mukunis-katapazi-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/mukunis-katapazi-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukuni’s Katapazi Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mukuni’s Katapazi Clinic has three clinics to assist the people living in these rural villages. For the past two and a half years The Butterfly Tree has raised funds to\u00a0support the Mukuni Health Centre<\/a>\u00a0improving the facilities, building a maternity clinic and providing vast amounts of medical supplies, which have been donated to the charity.<\/p>\n

During my last two\u00a0trips to Zambia I\u00a0visited Katapazi village, a remote community in the Mukuni Chiefdom, some 48 kilometers from Livingstone, much of it driving through the\u00a0bush. The community depend on gardening, fishing and small scale farming, which has suffered badly\u00a0due to\u00a0the January floods.\u00a0They have only one bore hole; the school children have to\u00a0fetch water and carry it to school. The Katapazi clinic, run by a dedicated midwife with\u00a0the\u00a0few staff she has trained from the community, is totally understaffed and lacking in equipment and medical supplies. The catchment population is over 5000 and many people have to walk long distances,\u00a0consequently most women\u00a0deliver their babies\u00a0at home because it is too far to get to the clinic.<\/p>\n

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\nMedical staff and community members at Katapazi clinic<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

When I\u00a0drove to\u00a0the clinic in June to take them some medical supplies I was shocked when the midwife told me\u00a0that 135 babies were underweight, 9 of them\u00a0critical. Knowing how successful our\u00a0feeding\u00a0program\u00a0is at Mukuni Village<\/a> I am\u00a0seeking\u00a0a sponsor to start one at Katapazi, in the meantime we have supplied formulae to help the crisis. The clinic is in dire need of improvement and requires an extention; there are only two wards with four beds; the staff do outreach visits four times a month using\u00a0bicycles. Immunizations, antenatal and voluntary councelling and testing for HIV are all done at the clinic, which is an invaluable facility for these vulnerable people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mukuni’s Katapazi Clinic has three clinics to assist the people living in these rural villages. For the past two and a half years The Butterfly Tree has raised funds to\u00a0support the Mukuni Health Centre\u00a0improving the facilities, building a maternity clinic More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}