Launched in October 2009, World Friends’ Italian fund-raising campaign “Nati nel posto giusto” (Born in the right place) has already reached its first goal: thanks to contributions from private donors and from the Italian Association “Cuore Amico” and from “Area Vasta Toscana sud est”, construction work on the Maternity department began at the end of 2009.
Next steps are: completing construction of the building; providing the department with furniture and technological equipment; recruiting medical personnel. The final goal is to begin receiving patients in autumn 2010.
The Maternity department will guarantee medical assistance to pregnant women in the Nairobi slums, giving them the opportunity to give birth to their babies in a clean and safe environment, assisted by professional clinical officers and doctors. The department will be able to receive 2,500 mothers per annum, with medical, sanitary and diagnostic assistance before, during and after childbirth.
All children will receive periodic health checks until the end of the vaccine cycle.
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