Health Care
Healthy Children Learn Better
When HEED first started, the nearest medical center was 15 kilometers away, and no one in the area owned a vehicle to get to it. Community members had no access to qualified medical care.
HEED is transforming lives through health education and access to medical care for over 6,000 people in our 5-village service area. In October 2020, HEED opened the Ebenezer Medical Center to provide the first qualified medical care in the area. Our clinical officer, Nurse Pamela, also provides medical care for the staff, teachers, support staff and students who attend HEED’s primary and high schools.
HEED provides several other medical interventions to the community including community health workshops, consistent fluoride and anti-parasitic treatments for students, reproductive health training, vision testing and glasses, and an occasional distribution of mosquito nets to help prevent malaria. In 2022, the village was connected to the power grid allowing the clinic to operate an ultrasound machine, the second one in Kassanda district (population 275,000). In 2024, the clinic started delivering babies. HEED was recently able to purchase an ambulance to make the clinic more accessible to the communities we serve.
Clinic dedication ceremony
Nurse Pamela usually treats dozens of students every day
Clinic staff
The clinic is equipped to provide prenatal care and deliver babies
Child immunizations at the clinic
HEED puts on pop-up clinics during mission trips. The last one served 173 people.
Our clinical officer, Nurse Pamela, also provides medical care for the staff, teachers, support staff and students who attend HEED’s primary and high schools.
HEED provides several other medical interventions to the community including community health workshops, consistent fluoride and anti-parasitic treatments for students, reproductive health training, reusable menstrual kits through partnership with Days for Girls, vision testing and glasses, and an occasional distribution of mosquito nets to help prevent malaria.
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