We are excited to tell you about Engage Now’s Lyn Maternity Health Center in Bo, Sierra Leone!
Engage Now Africa has funded the maternal clinic since it officially opened in 2007. Over the past five years it has become the fourth ranked maternal clinic in all of Sierra Leone due to its professional and sanitary environment that provides excellent midwifery and maternal care.
The Lyn Clinic is proud to have already provided quality maternal care to over two thousand women over the past five years. The clinic continues to deliver 30-35 babies a month with a very low maternal death rate compared with Sierra Leon’s average of 2,100 deaths per 100,000 live births, one of the highest in the world.
The Lyn Clinics maintains careful antenatal care and specific post natal care as its core objectives.
Antenatal care Includes:
1. Pregnancy diagnostics, clinical examination and pregnancy t est kits
2. Follow up of pregnant women: diagnostics of risk pregnancies, and monitoring of fetal growth
3. Screening, prevention and treatment of malaria and anemia
4. HIV/AIDS screening of mothers
5. Link with government HIV/AIDS program to supply kits for rapid test screening
6. Counseling and HIV/AIDS support of mothers.
Post-natal Care Includes:
1. Follow up and monitoring of mother and baby.
2. Infants growth and health charting
3. Immunizations
4. Screening new born for HIV/AIDS
5. Refer them to HAART Clinic
We are in the process of organizing HIV/AIDS education programs for young girls, targeting the youth before they are sexually active. We are also fund raising to be able to fulfill expansion and improvement needs which continually grow as the demands on the clinic increase.
The Lyn Clinic is a warm and happy place always filled with pregnant women and their children were been born there and is one of the many services Engage Now Africa is proud to provide to the women of Sierra Leone!
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