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HEALTH PROGRAM: THE RIGHT TO HEALTH AND 'EVEN MORE OF' POOR.

Activities' health in the territory have always been the prerogative of the Mayo- Mwana Project since its inception. Indeed, I believe that everyone should be entitled to health, the right to be assisted by competent staff in the disease and the right to be treated with proper medication. Unfortunately, in developing countries, the difficulties 'economic problems related to socio-political, involving the denial to the most' fundamental human rights such as health, food, education and jobs.

Our health program always takes place in collaboration with government health districts, with which cooperation agreements were signed on an annual or biennial. This allows us to work freely throughout the territory, in cooperation with the government clinic and local health workers. Unfortunately, in many clinics and health staff 'incomplete (the doctors are real rarities'!) And medicines are scarce. Despite the United Nations provide drug kits to hospitals and government clinics, in fact, the quantity ' of medicines given and 'totally inadequate and does not cover the high demand. Cosi 'is dying of malaria or pneumonia, not because' the diagnosis is made, but because 'there are no medicines to cure the disease. Very often, then, for lack of medical personnel and diagnostic tools, you die without knowing the cause of death.

currently in Zambia we 'can do an MRI or a CT scan, an endoscopic examination must go to the capital, Lusaka, which is 400 km from Ndola! The cost? A gastroscopy costs the equivalent of 150-200 euro: the practically non-if anyone could help ... 74% of the population live on less than € 2 a day! The health service, among other things, not 'free even in hospitals and public health centers. The cost of health care and drugs, and 'very high compared to income of the population, so often people can not buy the necessary drugs for the treatment prescribed. It 's really sad! Sometimes people die from diseases such trivial and 'really unacceptable, given that we are in 2011 in Africa!

immunization campaigns are also a problem. The vaccines are there, because 'the Government are provided by United Nations agencies, but lack the personnel or the means of trasporto per andare a vaccinare, su un territorio urbano, suburbano e rurale vastissimo, in cui la popolazione deve essere raggiunta nei villaggi o nelle periferie in cui vive (solo il 35% circa della popolazione abita in citta'). Le distanze sono veramente notevoli. Il nostro progetto, da solo, copre un territorio grande circa quanto la Valle d'Aosta o, se volete, quanto la Sicilia Orientale. Da qui la necessita' di avere mezzi di trasporto adeguati, fuoristrada capaci di attraversare la savana e le zone boschive per raggiungere le popolazioni piu' distanti. Anche le strade delle periferie urbane, costituite prevalentemente da disordinate, misere e degradate baraccopoli, spesso sono raggiungibili solo con i fuoristrada, soprattutto nella stagione delle rains.

Our activities 'health are held in the following stations:

1 - Miengwe Rural Health Centre, District of Masaiti, in forest, in the territory of the tribe' the Chief Nkambo Lamba ( the "Chief" and 'the chief tribes': the suburban areas are usually divided according to the different tribes' living there, with their heads);

2 - Clinic Lubuto / Kantolomba , slums urban outskirts of Ndola,

3 - Clinic Kaniki , wooded suburb of the city 'of Ndola;

4 - Health Centre "Andrea Lamantia" in the city 'of Ndola, in collaboration with the Railway Surgery Clinic of the District of Ndola.

The following are the activity data 'health conducted in 2010 . The high volume of services provided speak for themselves and express the need for 'Health Service and the importance of our presence. The data include two special health campaigns ("Week of the health of children" in July and November 2010).

ACTIVITIES 'HEALTH HELD IN 2010

MEDICAL: 9020
WEIGHT CONTROL CHILDREN
(monitoring of malnutrition): 20,241
VACCINE DOSES GIVEN: 25,478
DOSE VITAMIN A GIVEN
(eye diseases): 41,409 Mebendazole
DOSES ADMINISTERED
(prevention of intestinal parasites): 23,164
CHECKS midwives (only Miengwe): 729

I patients seen by me personally (Ndola) are not only visited but also treated free, as are totally medicines purchased by the MMP. As the clinical Miengwe, the MMP provides a kit of additional drugs, especially for the treatment of pediatric diseases, as well as' service nurse, Mrs. Annie Mvula, who worked with me in the woods for eight years and has a great clinical experience (in Miengwe there are only two nurses and an auxiliary!).

The vaccinations are carried out as follows: tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B, haemophilus encephalitis, Measles.

course all the activities' of the health program are the result of constant work, punctual and attentive played not only by me but by my numerous and valuable local staff (medical, paramedical and voluntary), with which we seek to ensure the best, according to our possibilities', decent health care to people in their own right, as human beings like everyone else.