Why Health
Healthcare is vital for Somalia’s development. DBG recognizes this and prioritizes primary healthcare to ensure whole-person care for individuals throughout their lives. Our approach is to make comprehensive care accessible to everyone, as close to their homes as possible.
What we Do
DBG collaborates with community health workers to promote good health in communities. We focus on organizing and strengthening communities to take control of their health, providing essential information, preventive services, and basic curative care for common illnesses.
Focus Areas
The focus is on enhancing access to healthcare and nutrition services, strengthening health systems, and addressing the needs of vulnerable populations.
Our Interventions
Our efforts include rehabilitating health facilities, training health workers and nutrition ambassadors, and providing essential equipment. DBG also emphasizes the importance of midwifery by supplying necessary equipment to maternal and child health facilities. We train community health workers in disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, nutrition, hygiene, sexual and reproductive health, and routine child vaccinations.
The Impact
Over the last decade, DBG's health and nutrition programs have reached over 125,870+ HHs. We have significantly improved healthcare and nutrition access and strengthened health systems, particularly for vulnerable communities.
Our health workers conduct extensive outreaches and home visits. The services they provide are comprehensive, covering maternal, infant, and child health, hygiene promotion, nutrition counseling, sexual and reproductive health, psychosocial support, disease detection, health education, and immunizations.
Creating accessible static healthcare centres in remote rural communities providing OPD, medicines, point of care test facilities and counseling, with focus on Physiotherapy Services
Providing need-based healthcare services to specific target groups through standalone health camps with specialized doctors, point of care tests, and sometimes surgical facilities
Enhancing reach and capacity of Government Health Centres by integrating telemedicine at sub-centres, training of frontline workers and upgradation of PHCs
Our health workers conduct extensive outreaches and home visits. The services they provide are comprehensive, covering maternal, infant, and child health, hygiene promotion, nutrition counseling, sexual and reproductive health, psychosocial support, disease detection, health education, and immunizations.
Creating accessible static healthcare centres in remote rural communities providing OPD, medicines, point of care test facilities and counseling, with focus on Physiotherapy Services
Providing need-based healthcare services to specific target groups through standalone health camps with specialized doctors, point of care tests, and sometimes surgical facilities
Enhancing reach and capacity of Government Health Centres by integrating telemedicine at sub-centres, training of frontline workers and upgradation of PHCs
Activity
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Distributed Equipment
