[ISF] Clinic Team -- update!

By Adrianne Lesser

The ISF-Clinic team is composed of Matthias Nachtnebel, Sima Shah, and Adriane Lesser. Matthias and Sima are MPH students, while Adriane is a MS student in her first year. The team is working to develop a set of implementable recommendations and program activities targeting the issue of access to preventive and basic primary care services in Rajugela. While the team is designing community-level recommendations, the emphasis is on schoolchildren, in keeping with ISF’s goal of having healthy students in its classrooms. Contacts and mentors for the group to-date have been or will be Rahul, Ajay at the Acumen Fund, Asad and Manu especially for assistance with Hindi-based conference calls, Elizabeth and Esmeralda, and Annie. 

Planned deliverables at this point include recommendations on feasibility of ISF’s initial ideas regarding preventive and clinic care; an evaluation of the estimated burden of different diseases and illness in Rajugela (especially among children); an essential drug list tailored to the estimated burden that projects feasibility, contents, and cost of stocking a small drug dispensary; and recommendations and possibly educational materials regarding how ISF can best reach and build knowledge in the community on basic preventive and primary care information and practices.