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| Nache (left) back with friends at Igoda Children's Village |
Nache, 12, is a child who is currently struggling with a battle
against HIV. We have been reporting on his up and down health status since
Doctors Vikki Milne and Will Metcalfe worked with him back in June. He recently
ended a three-week long stint as an in-patient at a far-away private Hospital
as we are trying to do everything we can to give him the best health care
possible. This is a difficult challenge, as our project area of 16 villages
(population 30-40,000) still lacks even a health center, and is trying to get
by with just 5 health dispensaries for now. The private Hospital Nache went to
for three weeks is extremely expensive, and normally not at all within the
means of patients in the community. Our NGO had to change budgeting plans for
other projects to accommodate the health services bill of over $1000 for his
treatment, and this is really a sign to us that there is still a long way to go
to providing accessible health care to this community.
With our public private partnership with Mdabulo health
facility, and ambitious plans for investments in health care in the area,
Foxes’ NGO is trying to change all of this, but it takes time for funding to be
realized to achieve these goals. In the meantime, for children like Nache, the
outlook would be much more bleak without assistance from the NGO and its health
department. Nache had a helper with him for each day and night that he was at
the Hospital. He was suffering from respiratory problems, and it was very
touch-and-go as to whether he would be back to the Children’s Village with his
new family.
We are all so very grateful that he is now back at Igoda
Children’s Village, and the guardians are all doing their very best in terms of
giving him rest, and a healthy diet to help see him through this. There have
been many success stories that have come through the doors of Igoda Children’s
Village, and we are all putting all of our efforts forth to make Nache the next
one!
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