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One of most important things we can do to sustainably strengthen maternal health care in CAR is to develop and support local health providers. Our team on the ground is composed of Central Africans who know the context and the people we serve the best, and one of our goals is to expand the network of well-trained local health providers.
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How? One way is we develop the capacity of young people that will serve as long-term assets for the local health system. Emmaus is a third-year nursing student whose medical training is supported by Senitizo and who will be hired onto the team after graduation at the end of this year.
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He is currently interning at the Hôpital Amitié in Bangui in the obstetric ward where he is learning in practice how to deliver babies and provide nursing support during C-section procedures.
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After his first assisted birth at the hospital he was ecstatic saying, “I never thought I could help bring a new life into the world, and now I’m so motivated to make sure every woman I see can deliver their baby safely! I’ve never experienced anything like that - it was very powerful.”
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Long-term improvements in maternal health care in the Central African Republic depend on people like Emmaus to lead the charge and Senitizo will continue to support and enable them along the way.
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Our goal is to provide a continuum of care for our patients that have not had access to any medical care before Senitizo began its operations in the Central African Republic. Two of the three babies in this photo were some of the first babies born after our maternity opened. Here, their mothers have brought them back to the clinic to be treated for some of the common, but deadly, diseases they've since come down with (malaria, respiratory infections, bacterial/diarrheal diseases). Building trust with mothers during pregnancy, ensuring a safe birth, and providing health care to young families is at the core of Senitizo's mission. To date we've treated over 20,000 patients at the clinic since opening in 2021!
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