{"id":83,"date":"2008-07-16T09:25:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T09:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/mukuni-maternity-clinic\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T16:15:22","slug":"mukuni-maternity-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/mukuni-maternity-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukuni Maternity Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of any trip for an NGO has to be\u00a0when a vision becomes a\u00a0reality. For almost two years I have strived to complete a <strong>maternity clinic<\/strong> for the women in the Mukini Cheifdom. Having heard that many Afican women die in labour, in their attempt to reach a rural clinic; I was totally committed and determined to see this project through and build <strong>Mukuni Maternity Clinic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to an initial grant from\u00a0John Humprys&#8217;\u00a0<a title=\"KTTC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitchentablecharities.org\/\">Kitchen Table\u00a0Charities Trust<\/a>\u00a0the Mukuni Maternity Clinic is finished, and is situated next to the\u00a0<a title=\"Mukuni Health Centre\" href=\"\/pages\/2007\/mukuni-health-centre\" target=\"_self\">Mukuni Health Centre<\/a>.\u00a0As often happens, the governments&#8217; plans were way under budget and it has taken a substantial amount of additional funds to\u00a0include ever-increasing costs for materials,\u00a0plumbing, electricity and equipment. The Butterfly Tree has been offered an ultra-sound scanner, which will further enhance the project.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"imageframe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/2670851682_4ce4d4ace7.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mukuni Maternity Clinic\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em>New Mukuni Maternity Clinic<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Beyango, Chieftainess of <a title=\"Mukuni\" href=\"\/pages\/our-work\/mukuni\/\" target=\"_self\">Mukuni<\/a>, performed a tribal blessing before I cut the ribbon to officially open the clinic. Members from the Kazungula district health office were in attendance along with village headmen and community members.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"imageframe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/2670026589_0e52eec4fb.jpg\" alt=\"Mukuni Maternity Clinic opening\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Jane officially opening the maternity clinic at <a title=\"Mukuni Village\" href=\"\/pages\/mukuni-village\/\" target=\"_self\">Mukuni Village<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The clinic has an ante-natal room, a nurses&#8217; station, delivery room, showers and toilets making a vast improvement on the tiny two-bedded room at the existing <a title=\"Mukuni Health Centre\" href=\"\/pages\/2007\/mukuni-health-centre\" target=\"_self\">Mukuni Health Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of any trip for an NGO has to be\u00a0when a vision becomes a\u00a0reality. For almost two years I have strived to complete a maternity clinic for the women in the Mukini Cheifdom. Having heard that many Afican women<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/mukuni-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":[58,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}