This report is to show the reader what the Community Health Care Workers see and do on their rounds through towns surrounding the Waterfield Primary Health Care Center in the Madina Community, Kakata, Margibi County, Liberia.
Monthly Reports for June 2019: Group 2
We as group-2 were able to attend to 9 Communities within Kakata. Discussion and activities done in the various Communities we went to are:
- Location of the clinic.
- Outreach about J.F.K.
- Personal Hygiene/Sanitation
- Cycle Beans
- Malaria
- Deworming and Vitamin( A) drop
- Assessment of the children
- Blood Pressure Taking
In the nine (9) Communities that we went, we were able to talk and encourage the Community dwellers how to take good care of themselves, their children, the food they eat and keep their surrounding clean.
- Not allowing dirt to be all over the yard along with dirty water near the houses because this may leads different sickness.
- We told the parents to bath their child or children twice a day, brush their tooth twice a bay.
- Wash their hair one every week, and wash their cloth, do not allow them move with bear feet so that the children will not get sick.
- We explain to the young girls about the cycle bean telling them how good the cycle beans is rather than family planning, if only they know how to go by it.
- It will help you not to get pregnant and it will stop many children from teenage pregnancy.
- It will make you not to bleed too much as compare to family planning. We also told them about malaria how it is dangerous in pregnant women, children and adults.
- The pregnant women were told to always sleep under the treated mosquito net at night.
- It will help prevent them from the bite of female mosquito that cause malaria
- Even the same goes to the children because, when they get malaria the skin continued to get hot and in that process the child is running out of blood that leads them to anemia.
Prenatal tablets was explained to the pregnant woman how it could benefit she and the baby.
- It prevents the baby eye from blindness and build up the immune system.
- It strengthens you and the child and make you eat well.
- The prenatal vitamin makes you and your babies well and healthy.
Deworming:
The deworming tablets was given to parents and children while from 6-11 months and 12-59 months children was given the vitamin A drop according to the way we were thought. We told them after taking the medicine; don’t take another till after six 6 months period.
Blood Pressure:
In the process of taking the pressure in the various communities we came across people with hard pressure and some with low pressure. That with hard pressure was given an advice not to eat enough salt, have bed rest, not to eat red oil and to also check with the doctor. That person with low pressure was advised to drink coconut water, nice coffee, ORS and they shall go to hospital for treatment.
Children:
In the assessment of the children in the nine (9) Communities, These are some health problems were observed:
- Dental problem 10 persons
- Alopecia 1 person
- Rain round 3 persons
- Hair kerker 5 persons
- Sore in hair 4 persons
- Ear wits 3 persons
- Sore on the foot- 4 persons
- Some children clothes were dirty.
- Brown eye – 8 persons
- Anemia 4 persons, etc
Special cases: We came across the following person with these cases in Bensiville Community.
- A women said that whenever she eat food her stomach pain while her back can hurt.
- One pregnant girl, 20 yrs, said that she has a pain in your right leg
- We came across Bendu F. from Karkpah Town with wound on the right leg that started with swelling feet (1wk) at that spot and she began to experience pain
Benla Bong Mines Road case observed: Abraham K. 29 yrs has sore on his right foot went to herbalist but to on avail.
Cases observed in Lango Town Community are: Ma.Fatu K. has elephantiasis feet; Peter K. (65) yrs has a sore on his foot.
Case observed in Matiala Community: Abraham K, 19 yrs was unable to stand or walk on his own.
Pregnant women served with prenatal vitamin was 44 persons.
Distributing worm medicine: On the 13th to 20th of May 2019, was the day we started distributing the deworming tablets and the vitamin A drop. We started with Kissi Community and ended Lango Town Community.
- The total children served with vitamin A drop was 44 in the general.
Blood Pressures: This Chart below show the total breakdown of peoples who their blood pressure were taking from various communities.
| Male | Female | Total Blood Pressures |
| 30 | 116 | 146 |
Total Deworming attendances.
| Male | Female | Children | Grand Total |
| 78 | 281 | 702 | 1,161 |
Communities Served: The chart below shows the grand total of the nine (9) Communities we worked in.
| Male | Female | Children | Grand Total |
| 195 | 551 | 352 | 1,098 |
**We went to thank Doctor Chris K. Hena for her hard work.
