Medical Clinic

A Muslim chief’s daughter who was born deaf was healed during the Feb’07

Journey of Compassion. In response he donated a $100,000 piece of land
to build a clinic. The local cement company donated $2,500 worth of dirt in dump-trucks for the land-fill.

On the first day of an eye/dental camp in January, 2008, over 500 people came for general medical care. They had no way to care for these people, so Jaipaul promptly collected $5,000 from the team and built the clinic in 48 hours. They were seeing patients on the third day.

There are no trained doctors in the 34 surrounding villages (population 2,000,000). Patients are coming for treatment of AIDS, malaria, TB, skin diseases, fever, burns, etc. In the month of November, 500 people died of preventable diseases in the 3 villages surrounding our clinic.

History
2005 First eye/dental camp – less than 10/day
2006 Isaac runs the camp: 700 patients
Feb’07 Journey of Compassion; land donated
Aug’07 Camp almost overrun by 1800 patients
Dec’07 Volunteer doctor and health volunteers;
10-20 patients/day
Jan’08 Permanent clinic built
Feb’08 Journey: mobile medical clinics
May’08 Dr. Luke hired full-time, plus 10 nurses;
donated medicine; treating 50-100/day
Aug’08 Regularly treating 1000-1500/month
Today: Dr. Luke continues to run the clinic in a financially self-sustaining manner.