Other activities in The Mursan Clinic

The Ultrasound Machine, The DOT Program, Poor People Clinic

and Support Group

The Clinic in Mursan have other activities also, not "only" being a clinic.  In October 2005 this clinic was upgraded by the Indian Government to be a DOT Center.  read about this below....

The Poor People Clinic which is every Friday, and on that day often more than 100 people are attending this clinic.  That day it is a special help for HIV/AIDS patients, Tuberculosis and other chronic ill people.

The Support group for the HIV/AIDS patients is a good place every first Friday in each month. This group was opened august 2004.

The last we have got is th Ultra sound machine.  We got it in the beginning of 2009, and this is big help for us.

Read about all this below......

Ultrasound Machine

This machine is a very great help to us, and both our doctors are using it, and we have a good number pastients coming for this every day.

The registration from The Government, which is very important was given to us a. December 2008, and just after this we received the machine.  We are thankful to Norway MCI and the members there who gave it to us.

The DOT 

Tuberculosis Program

The DOT Program means  "Direct Observation Treatment", and this is for Tuberculosis.  The main thing with this program is that the diagnosis is made by a sputum test, and the people giving the treatment shall see that the patients are taking the medicines.

These days it is used millions of dollar all over the world to give treatment for tuberculosis.    Earlier the problem was that  the people suffering from this illness took the medicines for a short time only, this beacuse the treatment always have been long and too expencive.  Previously, only to get a sure diagnosis was expencive, but now this is made on a positive sputum test. We take three such tests, and start the treatment.  

Previously the main problem was that because the treatment was so expencive, and  long, after some time most of the patients stopped the treatment, when they got better  After some time they would be sick again, and again the treatment had to be started, and in this way, the bacteria got resistant, and the patient would be very, very sick, and after sometime, the medicines would have no effect, and the patient would die.

The Indian Government pay all the medicines.  Beside this we get Rs. 50.000.- per year for supporting medicines and treatment.  

Per month we have about 40 sputum tests in Mursan Laboratory, and of these 90 % are negative, and about 10 % are positive.  We see a very good result when the patients start with medicines.  We had a couple of patients, in which we did not see a good result, so a HIV test was taken, this was HIV+, and now, this is a routive, a patients with tuberculosis is tested for HIV and vise versa.

The Poor People Clinic

This is a clinic held every Friday in The Mursan clinic.  This is a very popular clinic, and people are coming from far away to attend this.  This day everything is much cheaper.  The registration is normally Rs. 10.-, but this day it used to be Rs. 2.-, but after the new project started in April, we are taking Rs. 5.-.

This day it is given specially attention to the HIV/AIDS patients also.   We have 2 counsellors, one female and one male.  This day they will be here, and talk with the HIV+patients.  Ongoing counselling is important.  

This is the day we call the HIV+ patients found on the camps all over, and we wil continue testing them, and give treatment.

This is a busy day, and sometime more thank 100 people arre attending this clinic.

The Support groups

for HIV & AIDS patients

The Support Group for the HIV/AIDS patients is a famous group, and a place these patients really enjoy to come.   This group was started in August 2004.  At that time we already had a good number of HIV+ patients, and we really felt the need for å support group for these patients.

Since 2008 we have had two meetings, one group have a meeting the first Friday in every month, and the second the second Friday in the month.

On these days most of the regular patients we have will come.  We have seen that the patients miss each other, if someone is not coming, and it is very important for them to have this place as a day they know they can come and talk with each other and with us.

We have something to eat, and sit and talk together.  We will often ask them if it is something they want to talk about, and most of the time, they have some problems they want to discuss.

On each meeting, it will be about 25-40 people attending.  Sometimes it is not space enough in the HIV building, so we have to go to the TV Room, which is bigger.

We have talked about that since the group is so big, it might be that we have to make it into two sepparate groups.

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