Overview
The strength of any nation depends on its ability to educate its population and provide access for all residents with proper health services. While Côte d’Ivoire continues to work on a number of projects to reach these goals, additional initiatives are needed to accelerate this process.
To that end, AfriMed Network increases the supply of medical care, especially preventive medicine, in Côte d’Ivoire to reduce the health challenges to its citizens and provide a required component for economic and social growth.
Working with the government, AfriMed Network establishes a simple, yet comprehensive, health education program expanding applicable practical knowledge in reproductive health, family planning, maternal health, nutrition, and sanitation.
Proposed Locations for Expanding Medical Care
AfriMed Network has been certified by the Ivorian government to operate as a medical NGO and has targeted several rural communities in Phase I to provide mobile basic healthcare with the long term goal in Phase II of establishing permanent medical buildings in some of these communities.
Phase I
Our mobile medical vans will create a regular schedule of service visits to provide a level of basic medical care. As part of our program with each diagnosis, those individuals found to be suffering from any life-threatening diseases will be referred to the Ivorian Ministry of Health for treatment by either the Central government or NGOs operating in the country specializing in each disease treatment.
Medical Clinic Designs: Proposed for Phase II
Boots and Stethoscopes on the Ground
AfriMed Network utilizes mobile clinics to increase the access of medical care to these remote areas in a cyclical manner and conducts basic exams, testing, and screening of patients.
Each mobile medical unit has one doctor and two nurses and works a schedule of rotating dates visiting each location. The program will initially recruit local teams of doctors, nurses, and needed staff. When necessary, additional medical personnel from French-speaking countries will augment the local staff.
Patient Services
AfriMed Network will provide access to health services based on a patient’s ability to pay. Free health care will be given to those who cannot afford to pay. A pre-screening financial profile will be completed on first the visit and level of ability to pay will be determined. There will be three different pricing models:
- Free Healthcare: no payment required by the patient.
- Partial Pay Healthcare: partial payment is required from the patient.
- Pay in Full Healthcare: full payment is required from the patient. These are patients with the means to pay who come to the clinic because it is geographically desirable, or they prefer the services and doctors at this clinic.
AfriMed Network will be using a privacy-compliant software for patient and medical record keeping. For areas with no internet access, medical data is initially collected on paper, then imputed into the secure, cloud-based healthcare platform when an internet connection is possible.
