2009 report

Rapporto Medicus Mundi Italia 20092009

2009 Report

Medicus Mundi Italia

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presentation p. 3

our mission p. 4

who we are p. 6

partnerships p. 9

projects p. 10

activities in Italy p. 22

2009 balance sheet p. 24

table of contents

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presentation

I am glad to present the 2009 Medicus Mundi Italy Report, which gets published for the first time on

the website of our Association. It was a commitment which the new Council had taken on in its

work program plan and the satisfaction of having met this goal equals the hope that this Report

may represent a useful tool for all those who wish to know more about the work and activities

performed by Medicus Mundi Italy.

The Report presents the mission of the Association, the Organization Chart and the

Commissionings, as well as the most important component: the projects in the pipeline and the

sources of their funding and how these are employed. I believe these aspects are particularly

interesting as they follow the imperatives of transparency in activities performed and in the

management of funds which the community – Institutions and Privates – entrusts to our hands to

answer our statutory mandate of “promoting health and socio-healthcare assistance in the world

and especially in underdeveloped regions”

Such mandate, registered in our articles of association almost 20 years ago, is still valid today,

even though activities have slowly been changing. Medicus Mundi Italy is more than ever

committed to contributing to the world’s engagement to reaching the Millennium Objectives by

developing, aside from the projects, also the Training and Research related to them. The Updating

Course on Tropical Diseases and the continuous technical-scientific relations with the University of

Brescia and the Spedali Civili Hospital of Brescia, represent the most significant steps taken in this

sense.

We will certainly be very grateful to all those who will have the patience of reading the Report and

eventually pint out to us which could be the improvements to be introduced for future editions,

which I hope are soon to follow.

Thanking all the co-workers who have made possible this brief synthesis of a huge initiative, I wish

you a good read

Francesco Castelli

President, Medicus Mundi Italiy

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our mission

Our Mission

Medicus Mundi Italy is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), a non-profit making association, at international level and specialized in healthcare cooperation. Founded in 1968 in Brescia, it is

part of Medicus Mundi International which is present in over 50 Countries with more than 1000

projects carried out and is officially recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO resolution

EB 63 R 27) with which it regularly cooperates.

The objective of Medicus Mundi Italiy is to contribute to the integrated promotion of the human

being through the creation of structural healthcare development and emergency programs.

Medicus Mundi Italy, in cooperation with public institutions (Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union, United Nations Agencies, Regions, Provinces, Cities, etc.) and private non-profit

ones, is committed to improving quality and efficiency of local healthcare services and promoting

primary and community healthcare, by creating adequate infrastructures and by training medical,

nursing and technical personnel.

The projects of Medicus Mundi Italy are always spurred by precise requests of the communities in

question and local partners participate from the earliest stages to strategic and operational choices.

Medicus Mundi Italy is independent from political or religious sidings and acts in total respect of

local cultures in a self-development and self-determination point of view.

Since the beginning, the vision of Medicus Mundi Italy has been directed to professional

cooperation for development, in strict relation with the principles outlined by the WHO. One of the fundamental choices which have always characterized Medicus Mundi Italy, is that of favouring the

need to promote and support adequate healthcare human resources, without failing to grant

financial and material aid. The main objective is to share, with the poorest communities in the South of the world, the abundancy of healthcare technology and medical-scientific know-how in the

most underdeveloped countries. The option for poor people and the not for profit service has always distinguished and still distinguishes to this day the actions performed by Medicus Mundi

Italy.

Traditionally, the role of doctors was often linked to charity and concentrated on the sick. Medicus

Mundi Italy has tried to integrate the approach based purely on the disease, taking an interest in healthcare prevention and treatment in terms of community health, with particular focus on mothers

and children. This understanding and “mandate” needed the healthcare cooperation world to open

its views towards a new approach: not only curing individuals was important, but also promoting healthcare. The traditional question “for who?”, typical of the charitable approach, has slowly been

substituted by the question “with whom?”. The main task has changed from paternalistically assisting the weaker people, to involving them directly and making them also directly responsible.

The concept of partnership has become the slogan of international cooperation, thanks to the

training of doctors and local medical attendants.

One of the objectives of Medicus Mundi Italy is to promote the creation of local competent and professional pools, avoiding emigration of these human resources towards Western countries,

which represents one of the main problems of the Countries in the Southern hemisphere of the globe. Internal discussions and dialogues with the partners, has allowed Medicus Mundi Italy to

keep in touch with the constant changes of foreign politics and development strategies in the

various Countries.

In planning future commitment, Medicus Mundi Italiy has closely followed the so-called Millennium

Development Goals in its fight against poverty, inequality, violence and injustice. These strategies

allow to maintain competence and motivation of medical personnel at all levels and must be

intensified to protect the ideal of a not for profit service.

In this respect, the Alma Ata declaration in 1978, to which 150 countries adhered, has pointed out principles which, being based on human rights, make an appeal to everyone’s right to being healthy

and they also represent a fundamental reference for all the organizations active in this field. At the

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our mission

basis of the Alma Ata declaration was the rule that healthcare programs “have to be accessible to

everyone, they have to fit in the socio-cultural situation of each Country, they have to be governed

by the local National Health Service and supervised by independent technical committees. The declaration prophetically presented a global approach to health intended as something not strictly

linked to the medical aspects but in its broader sense as something intended for developing socio-cultural situations. Over 30 years later, the approach is not only that of curing diseases but also of

promoting healthcare prevention. The right to health is perceived as an element of social justice

and democratic involvement of each individual as well as of communities, in building actual health

for everyone.

The Alma Ata conference, dedicated to Primary Health Care (PHC), highlighted that in basic

communities there was a social unity to guarantee health for everyone, as it is only by offering

necessary medical treatments close to where people live and work that it is possible to concretely

meet the project objective.

The principles and the approach introduced by the Alma Ata Conference are still at the basis of

international cooperation healthcare projects and they inspire Medicus Mundi International and

Medicus Mundi Italy. The projects which Medicus Mundi Italy has carried out in Africa, Latin

America and Asia focus on fighting AIDS and supporting infantile and maternal health.

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who we are

Operational Structure

Merdicus Mundi Italy is ruled by a mandate which provides for:

Board of Directors’ Meeting to organize the NGO’s activities, to approve balance sheets

and to elect the Directive Committee

Directive Committee in charge of managing the NGO by following the protocols outlined

by the Board of Directors’ Meeting

A National Secretary responsible for organizing the operational structure.

Proposals and requests coming from partners in the South, from our own volunteers or from

collaborators which operate or have operated in developing countries, or from other partner organizations; they are evaluated by those responsible for management and by the personnel

responsible of the planning stage sorted by geographical area. The criteria adopted to select

project proposals, aside from the criteria qualifying the quality of the proposal and the credibility of the proposer, are those defined by the guidelines of the Board of Directors and the Directive

Committee. Positively evaluated proposals, normally approved after having verified the feasibility of the project on site, are later elaborated with the partners, Italian ones and also from the South, and

presented for approval to the Directive Committee. In case of consortium projects, Medicus Mundi

Italy takes part in decisional and coordination meetings attended by representatives of each partner

organization.

Activities

In over 40 years of activity, Medicus Mundi Italy has operated in Africa, Latin America, Asia and

Eastern Europe by realizing the following:

Hospitals, urban and rural dispensaries, labs and multi-purpose diagnostic stations

inserted in the local National Health Services (Albania, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso,

Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, India, Lithuania, Rwanda, R. D. Congo);

Primary Health Care projects and integrated initiatives for community development,

environmental hygiene, health care education and training for medical operators (Ciad,

Madagascar, Somalia, Sudan, Thailand);

Medical-health care schools to contribute to the training of local specialists (Ethiopia,

R.D. Congo);

Specialized and emergency operations (D.R, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Thailand,

Tanzania).

In Italy, Medicus Mundi Italy is engaged in education development. In this view, it organizes training meetings and periodically publishes its own information bulletin, the “Bulletin” of Medicus Mundi

Italy). In the training field, Medicus Mundi Italy has been organizing a Course in Tropical Disease

over the past 20 years, of the duration of 3 weeks, with the objective of offering an opportunity towards professional and cultural expertise targeted to both those who are about to offer assistance

in developing countries and to assistants working in Italian hospitals, structures which are more and more involved in diagnosis and therapy of tropical and sub-tropical pathologies. The course is

organized in cooperation with the Infectious and Tropical Disease Clinic in the University of

Brescia, the Medical Association of Surgeons and Dentists of the Province of Brescia and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs – General Division for Development Cooperation. Medicus Mundi

Italy actively works with the Infectious and Tropical Disease Clinic in the University of Brescia to

organize the European Master of Tropical Medicine and International Health, inserted in the

European network of Tropical Medicine Schools.

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who we are

The activities of Medicus Mundi Italy are made possible by recurring to self-financing, to

conspicuous support offered by private individuals, associations and support groups, not to mention

contributions received for specific projects by public and private Institutions: European Commission, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regions, Local Authorities, Bank Establishments, Italian

Bishops’ Conference, etc.

Human Resources

Italy’s Personnel

1 part-time employee (secretary/administration)

1 part-time employee (project administration)

1 project consultant to organize and manage projects

1 project employee for “Stop Malaria Now!”

Doctors, remunerated and volunteers, for short-time missions in Southern Countries

1 part-time voluntary (secretary)

Around 20 people (doctors and not) who act as volunteers for the association in various

chores: communication and fund raising, training, organization, management and project

realization.

Personnel involved in Southern Countries

2 co-operators

2 on-site project coordinators/cooperators

RECRUITING PARTNERS

During 2009, Medicus Mundi Italy has received more than 20 application requests, many of which are from young doctors and specialized doctors in the School of Medicine in the University of

Brescia. This turn-over is more than ever necessary to continue circulating the ideas and the potential growth of activities. On 31st December 2009 the number of partners was 55, as

established by Art. N°5 of the Association Mandate; the financing partners or sympathizers amount

to 290.

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who we are - organization chart

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General Assembly

Board of Directors

President Francesco Castelli

Vice President Silvio Caligaris

National Secretary Giuseppe Andreis

Advisor Monica Franchi

Advisor Mariarosa Inzoli

Advisor Roberto Marzollo

Advisor Alessandro Pini

Advisor Fausta Prandini

Advisor Paola Maria Rossini

Advisor R. Fabian Schumacher

Advisor Lina Rachele Tomasoni

General Secretariat

and Accounting

Cinzia Ferrante Giovanni Zoppi Silvano Boschi

Mario Bina

Organization and Project

Administration

Massimo Chiappa Giovanni Zoppi

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Bullettin and Information Mariarosa Inzoli Connection with R. Fabian Schumacher Medicus Mundi International Communication and Website Monica Franchi Tropical Diseases Course Myriam Brunelli (Past President) Organization Paola Rossini, Silvio Caligaris Youth Awareness Campaign Roberto Marzollo Alessandro Pini Energy Fausta Prandini Infectious Diseases Lina Rachele Tomasoni Pediatrics R. Fabian Schumacher

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partnerships

In a more and more globalized context, and in view of reinforcing and sharing commitments in the

international cooperation world and in developing education targeted to creating a fair and equal

society, Medicus Mundi Italy firmly believes that team-work with other associations and the participation of different Northern and Southern networks is more and more pressing and

necessary. In this perspective, Medicus Mundi is part of:

Medicus Mundi International – http://www.medicusmundi.org – Medicus Mundi Italy is an

actual partner of the Medicus Mundi International network and attends meetings and

international assemblies. It also participates in consortium projects promoted by the network and financed by the European Commission.

Medicus Mundi Equipment – MeMua – http://memua.it/

FOCSIV (Federazione Organismi Cristiani di Servizio Internazionale Volontario – Federation

of Christian Orgnizations and International Voluntary Service) http://www.focsiv.it Medicus

Mundi Italy is a member of the federation since 1996.

NGO Italian Association – http://www.ongitaliane.it

CoLomba – Lombardy NGO Association – http://onglombardia.org

“Brescia for Mozambique” – coordination of Brescia NGOs in Mozambique.

“Bakhita Consortium” NGO consortium and associations for South Sudan

Consultation on peace and solidarity among populations in the town of Brescia.

Brescia Solidale – http://www.fondazionebssolidale.it

Moreover it cooperates with:

University of Brescia

School of Medicine and Surgery

Pediatrics Clinic

School of Engineering

CeTamb (Centre for Documentation and Research on Appropriate Technologies for

Environmental Management in Developing Countries).

Spedali Civili Hospital of Brescia

Infectious Diseases Department

Pediatrics Department

National observatory of NGOs fighting AIDS, Information Service, Analysis and Monitoring of

initiatives in fighting AIDS in developing countries.

STOP MALARIA NOW! Campaign. European network to fight malaria

CLIA – International Fight against AIDS Connection

International Civil Service

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http://www.medicusmundi.org

http://memua.it/

http://www.focsiv.it

http://www.ongitaliane.it

http://onglombardia.org

http://www.fondazionebssolidale.it


Partnerships

Medicus Mundi International www.medicusmundi.org

Medicus Mundi International is a network of organizations

which operate in the international healthcare sensitivity

and cooperation field. The Medicus Mundi Electronic Platform enables to access programs, events and news regarding the network itself to share

knowledge, know-how and direct all efforts towards the common goal of granting health to everyone. In 2009, the Medicus Mundi International network was composed by 14 members in 8

Countries (Benin, Germany, Italy, Kenya, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Switzerland). The

multi-plural healthcare approach of the Medicus Mundi International members is based on the experience matured on site and is a fundamental element of the network. Together, they can

examine all aspects of medical policies and cooperation, from primary medical assistance to

emergency interventions.

The 15 members of MMInternational are:

Africa CHA Platform http://www.africachap.org/ Action Medeor, Germania http://www.medeor.org/ AGEH, Germania http://www.ageh.de/ AMCES, Benin http://membres.multimania.fr/cotonou/amces/ CUAMM, Italia http://www.cuamm.org/ CORDAID http://www.cordaid.nl/nl/%28728%29-Cordaid.html EPN http://www.epnetwork.org/ Fatebenefratelli, Italia - http://www.oh-fbf.it/ Medicus Mundi Svizzera http://www.medicusmundi.ch/ Medicus Mundi Spagna http://www.medicusmundi.es/ Medicus Mundi Italia http://www.medicusmundi.it/ MISEREOR http://www.misereor.org/ Redemptoris Missio http://www.medicus.amp.edu.pl/ WEMOS http://www.wemos.nl/

Medicus Mundi Attrezzature (MeMuA) www.memua.it

Medicus Mundi Equipment is a Type B Social Co-

operation which collects the unused equipment in Italian

hospitals and makes it available – after testing and

revision – to non-profit medical activities in Countries with

few resources. The collection of the equipment started in

1996 with a small group of volunteers of Medicus Mundi

Italy and in 2004 it adopted the jurisdictional title of Type B Social Co-operation to guarantee the

continuity and the independent development of the initiative. Medicus Mundi Equipment, as a type

B social cooperation, is also dedicated to supporting and directing people in need of jobs.

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projects

Country Subject Co-Financer

AFRICA Burkina Faso Fight against AIDS Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mozambique Medical Assistance/Training Township of Brescia

D. R. Congo Access to Water ASM – A2A Foundation South Sudan Medical Assistance Italian Bishops’ Conference

South Sudan Pediatric Assistance Brescian Community Foundation

LATIN AMERICA

Bolivia Medical Assistance Privates

Brazil Socio-medical Assistance Italian Bishops’ Conference Brazil Socio-medical Assistance Township of Brescia

Brazil Dialysis Services Region of Lombardy Township of Brescia

Township of Marone

Ass. Cuore Amico Leno Missionary Group

ASIA

India Hospital Renovation Region of Lombardy

EUROPE/AFRICA

STOP MALARIA NOW! European Commission

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projects - Africa

Place

Ouagadogou and Nanoro (Burkina Faso)

Local Partner

Vice Provincia Camilliana burkinabé

Centre Médical Saint Camille (CMSC ),

Ouagadougou

Centre d’Accueil Notre Dame de Fatima

(CANDAF), Ouagadougou

Centro di Ricerca Biomolecolare Pietro

Annigoni (CERBA ), Ouagadougou

Centre Médical avec Antenne Chirurgicale

- St. Camille (CMA-SC), Nanoro

Il progetto è svolto congiuntamente da Medicus Mundi Italia (capofila) e l’Associazione

Internazionale di Volontariato Laico (LVIA).

Co-Financer

MAE - Italian Ministry of Foreign

Affair

Duration of the Project

30 months (2008-2011)

Project Goals

The objective is to develop performances offered

to HIV/AIDS patients in the 4 structures of the Camillian delegation in Burkina Faso. This

objective will be met principally by using

antiretroviral medication according to WHO protocols for Countries with limited resources and

to dispositions of the local Ministry of Health. To

this end, the initiative provides for requalification of diagnostic and first-aid structures (laboratory

and radiology) of four Health Centres managed by the Delegation of the Camillian Fathers in

Burkina Faso to serve the local health service:

the Centro Medico San Camillo (CMSC) and the CANDAF, in District 30 in Ouagadougou, the

district Hospital of San Camillo in Nanoro and the

CERBA.

The Beneficiaries of the initiative will be:

For the prevention of vertical HIV/AIDS

transmission, all the population of the Nanoro District (150,000 inhabitants),

around 4000 pregnant women expected over the three-year long initiative, their

newly born children and partners, who will

benefit from counseling and voluntary screening of HIV/AIDS;

For treatment, subjects infected with HIV/

AIDS will be diverted to the CMSC centres

in Ouagadougou and Nanoro for the

prevention of vertical HIV/AIDS transmission, for a total of 2000 patients

expected over the three-year period of the

initiative.

The project is carried out with the consortium of

the NGO LVIA in agreement with the local

Ministry of Health and the Camillian Fathers. It is also connected to the intra-hospital partnership

represented by the ESTHER Italia project, which has the finality of fighting AIDS with the support of

the Spedali Civili Hospital of Brescia.

Currently, there are two cooperators on the

project site: Dr. Virginio Pietra (Doctor and head of the project) and Mario Civettini (administration/

logistics).

In respect of the agreed objectives, on 31st May

2009, the first year of the project had come to an end and the relative documentation was sent to

Office n°VII of the Italian Ministry of Foreign

Affairs.

Since 1st June 2009, the activities of the second

year have been under-way.

Burkina Faso

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Fighting AIDS in the District of Sector 30 of Ouagadougou and the Rural District of Nanoro

(Burkina Faso)

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projects - Africa

Place

Morrumbene District– Inhambane Province – Mozambique

Local Partners

Missão Santa Maria de Mocodoene

Serviço Distrital de Saúde, Mulher e Acção

Social de Morrumbene

Co-Financer

Township of Brescia

Duration

18 months (from July 2008)

Project Goals

The aim is to strengthen the maternal-infantile

healthcare program network and that of the

vertical HIV/AIDS transmission in the

Morrumbene district.

The project is part of the initiative “Brescia for

Mozambique” promoted by 5 NGOs in Brescia (Tovini Foundation, SCAIP, Medicus Mundi Italy,

SVI, SIPEC Foundation, Missionary Diocese

Centre) which concentrates on realizing cooperation projects for agricultural, educational

and medical development in favour of the Inhambane Province, the poorest and most

underdeveloped in Mozambique. This project has

been a pilot in the medical district of Morrumbene in cooperation with the Servico Distrital de

Saude, Mulher e Accao Social de Morrumbene

and the Santa Maria de Mocodoene Mission represented by the Piamartini Fathers in Brescia.

Thanks to the support given in technical assistance, training and socio-medical

prevention, the project strengthened the maternal

-infantile healthcare program and the prevention campaign against vertical HV/AIDS transmission,

especially in rural areas. The aim was also to contribute in expanding community healthcare

network in the district, where general health

levels and epidemiology levels are worryingly high and where currently there is no socio-

healthcare development plan in action. In May 2009, Doctor Anna Cristina Carvalho has chaired

an on-site course for medical attendants involved

in the mother-infant healthcare program, focusing on the theme of prevention against vertical HIV/

AIDS transmission (theoretical aspects, team-work and videos about HIV disease and

antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy).

The Beneficiaries of the initiative are:

6000 mothers and pregnant women can

access the services offered by technical-

medical attendants, “Brigada Moveis”, in

view of the assistance outlined by the maternal-infantile healthcare program;

Around 1000 pregnant women who have

been offered counseling for HIV testing,

pre-natal visits, assistance during labour

and post-labour check-ups.

Mozambique

Improving Health Care Assistance in the

District of Morrumbene (Mozambique), by

supporting Maternal-Infant Health Care and

Prevention of Vertical HIV/AIDS Transmis-

sion Program.

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projects - Africa

Place

Makaw – Inongo Diocesis – Congo

Local Partners

Inongo Diocesis

BDOM (Bureau Diocésain des Oeuvres

Médicales – Bureau of Medical Works)

Other Partners

MeMuA – Medicus Mundi Equipment

CERRO TORRE – Social Cooperation

Asscoiation

Co-Financer

A2A SpA – “Raining on dry-land” Campaign


6 months (beginning July 2009)

Project Goals

The objective is to guarantee constant supply of drinking-water to the Makaw Hospital and also to

supply a share of it to the population.

Performed Activities

Cleaning and restructuring old,

malfunctioning and abandoned wells

Substituting degraded and unhygienic

water-tanks

Installation of photovoltaic panels to create

energy for aspiration and lifting pumps to

take water from the wells to the tanks

Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries will be the almost 80 patients hospitalized each month at the Makaw Hospital,

the villagers in the surrounding area of Makaw (around 10,000 people) who can benefit from

services offered by the Hospital.

Dem. Rep. of the Congo

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IMPROVING THE DRINKING-WATER SUP-

PLY IN THE MAKAW HOSPITAL –

INONGO (CONGO)

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projects - Africa

Place

Mapourdit, Tirol and Tonj Dsitricts (areas of

Lakes Region and Bahr El Ghazal), South-Sudan

Local Partner

AAA Arkangelo Ali Association (NGO recognized

by the South-Sudan Government)

Other Patners

AIFO – Italian Association of Friends of

Raoul Follerai

Cesar Association – Coordination of

Solidarity Corporations in Rumbek

Co-Financer

Italian Bishops’ Conference - CEI


30 months (2007-2009)

Project Goals

The goal is to develop primary health care and

socio-health care training in the Mapourdit, Yirol and Tonj Districts and in their respective

surrounding territories.

Activities

To diminish the childhood mortality rate under the

age of 5 due to “killer” diseases (diarrhea, severe

respiratory infections, malaria…) in the Districts of Mapourdit, Yirol and Tonj, the following

activities have been undertaken:

Basic Training for township agents (Village

Volunteers) and for Traditional Birth Assistants; supervision of their activities

Healthcare prevention activities and long-

term children vaccinations

Assistance and counseling for pregnant

women and young mothers

Purchasing of medical equipment and

pediatric medication

Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries of the initiative are:

Around 1000 children

Hundreds of pregnant women assisted in

the 3 medical Districts each month

Around 40 Village Volunteers

40 Traditional Birth Assistants

A voluntary nurse from Brescia, Luciana Resconi, was sent on site by MMI to give her contribution

to the project.

South Sudan

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REINFORCEMENT OF HEALTH CARE AND

SOCIO-HEALTH CARE TRAINING IN THE CENTRES OF MAPOURDIT, YROL AND

TONJ – SOUTH-SUDAN

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projects - Africa

Place

Marial Lou, Tonj County, South-Sudan

Local Partner

AAA Arkangelo Ali Association (NGO recognized

by the South-Sudan Government)

Co-Financer

Brescian Community Foundation


18 months (ending January 2010)

Project Goals

The objective is to improve pediatrics, nursing

and nutritional assistance to children between 0 and 5 years of age, underfed and affected by

local diseases typical of the Marial Lou area.

The initiative contributed to improving pediatrics assistance and the professionalism of medical

personnel in hospitals and dispensaries in Marial

Lou, through a training which has made personnel capable of responding effectively and

efficiently to local medical emergencies: fighting transmissible diseases, childhood mortality rate

under the age of 5 by “killer” diseases (diarrhea,

severe respiratory infections, malaria), not to mention nutritional awareness campaigns

targeted to young mothers.

Beneficiaries

1200 malnourished children between 0 and

5 years old

10 health assistants in the hospital of the

Marial Lou Medical District

During the initiative, the voluntary nurse from

Brescia, Luciana Rusconi, has committed herself to developing the specific training and

preparation course targeted to local medical

personnel.

South Sudan

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SUPPORTING PEDIATRICS ASSITANCE IN THE MARIAL LOU HOSPITAL (TONJ

COUNTY, SOUTH-SUDAN)

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projects - Latin America

Place

La Paz – Bolivia

Local Partner

Hospital Juan XXIII in La Paz

Comision Episcopal Pastoral Social

National Health Service


Continuative since 2005

The cooperation between MMI and the Hospital Juan XXIII has been going on since 2005,

especially with the Pediatrics and Neonatology

Pathology Departments.

Medications and funds have been sent over to

purchase equipment on site.

Doctor Cintia Aparicio attended a high

specialization course on rehabilitation during

development age from July 2009 to October 2009 at the Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova – Reggio

Emilia Hospital Company - and held by Prof. Adriano Ferrari. Medicus Mundi Italy paid for her

travel expenses from Bolivia to Italy and back.

Doctor Aparicio has been provided with

medication and medical equipment for children

assisted in the Giovanni XXIII Hospital in La Paz

and in other Health Centres where this

pediatrician operates. The initiative to support

mother-infant healthcare was sustainable through

a contribution given to take part in the AIEPI

training courses (of the duration of 12 months)

held in the “Club des Madres” in Munaipato, La

Paz and other centres in Bolivia.

Bolivia

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SUPPORTING THE MATERNAL-INFANT HEALTHCARE PROGRAM – Integral

Attention for Prevalent Childhood Diseases

(AIEPI)

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i progetti - America Latina

Location

Itaobim – Minas Gerais – Brazil

Local Partners

Vale do Jequintinhonha Hospital

Prefeitura di Itaobim

Do Rim di Montes Claros Hospital

Kidney Therapy Unit Pro-Rim, Brasilia de

Minas

Partnerships

Spedali Civili Hospital of Brescia,

Departments of Nephrology and Urology –

University of Brescia, School of Medicine

and Surgery, Nephrology Specialization

School

Co-Financers

Region of Lombardy

Township of Brescia

Township of Marone (BS)

Brescian Community Foundation

NGO “Associazione Cuore Amico”


24 months (beginning July 2008)

Project Goals

The objective is to requalify the Vale do

Jequintinhonha Hospital through the activation of dialysis treatment and kidney disease prevention

programs for the benefit of the Itaobim Region.

The Vale do Jequintinhonha Hospital:

Does not possess sufficient resources or

financial assets to purchase equipment for

the treatment of patients

There is a strong priority given by local

medical authorities to prevention of kidney diseases in general, given the progressive

increase of secondary pathologies

The request to activate dialysis treatment in the

Region, for the Vale do Jequintinhonha Hospital, comes directly from the Ministry of Health of the

Minas Gerais State.

The Township of Itaobim, thanks to devolutions forwarded by the State of Minas Gerais,

guarantees the building of the physical structure

which is already under-way as it is fundamental to implement the service; the Town-hall also

commits to covering all future expenses for health care and nursing personnel as well as for

medication supplies and other equipment

necessary to guarantee the future continuity of the service.

Direct Beneficiaries

80 patients suffering from chronic kidney

failure and undergoing dialysis treatment

(12.480 accesses to treatment per year)

Patients suffering from severe or primary

kidney failure who can be supported with out-patient performances and patients at

risk of kidney failure (high-blood pressure sufferers, diabetes mellitus, etc), who

amount to 17% of the adult population in

the 4 micro-regions of Itaobim (Almenara, Aracuai, Itaobim and Pedra Azul)

Indirect Beneficiaries

The entire population (395,030 inhabitants) of the

4 micro-regions will benefit from the initiative

thanks to the remuneration given in favor of the PRO-HOSP program for the dialysis service and

which will benefit from a qualitative increase of already existing services.

Brasile (Minas Gerais)

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24 months

Local Partnerships

Arch-dioceses of Sao Luis

Paroquia Santissima Trinidade –

Santissima Trinidade Parish

Secreteria de Saude e Secreteria de

Educacao da Prefeitura de Sao Luis

Conselho Tutelar Sao Luis

Centre Direitos Humanos Marcos

Passerini

Co-Financer

Italian Bishops’ Conference

Project Goals

Basic social and primary healthcare training and

education targeted to the weakest classes of the

population in the six communities of Cidade

Olimpica.

Cidade Olimpica, located in the south-eastern

suburbs of Sao Luis de Maranhao, is a favela with 60 000 inhabitants and it stands out for its

severe social degrade and its lack of adequate

socio-healthcare services.

In accordance with the Municipal Secretariat of

Health, the Conselho Tutelar and the Centre

Direitos Humanos Marcos Passerini, several educational and training activities have been

carried out:

Basic social, healthcare and prevention

instructions for expectant women and mothers

Assistance for children and adolescents

exposed to abuse and sexual violence

Requalifying and updating health care

workers and local community health care

agents

Education about the couple and family life

These activities have been carried out through

the participation and active involvement of the

community and of the local health care agents

Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries were:

258 women from the six communities that

participated in the social, health care and prevention training

250 among parents, teachers, educators

and volunteers at the Pastoral da Crianca,

health care and justice workers who participated in the course on abuse and

violence against minors, controlling emotions and knowledge of one’s own

body

170 basic and community health care

agents

73 young people who participated in the

education course about the couple and family life

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Cidade Olimpica, Sao Luis (Maranhao) – Brazil Duration

24 months (starting November 2007) Local Partnerships

Arch-dioceses of Sao Luis

Paroquia Santissima Trinidade –

Santissima Trinidade Parish

Secretaria de Saude e Secretaria de

Educacao da Prefeitura de Sao Luis

Conselho Tutelar Sao Luis

Centre Direitos Humanos Marcos

Passerini Co-Financer

Township of Brescia Project Goals

Supporting socio-healthcare training

targeted to male population in the six communities of Cidade Olimpica to reclaim

the role of men in the family and in society;

Bolstering medical health prevention

through knowledge of the main infectious diseases sexually transmitted diseases

and malnutrition diseases

Reducing the abuse of alcohol and drugs

The project experimented an innovative support approach to the development of Cidade Olimpica,

a large favela in the south-eastern suburbs of

Sao Luis in Maranhao which stands out for its degrade and lack of adequate socio-healthcare

services.

Social and health care training courses were

created with special care and were focused on psychological aspects, reclaiming one’s own

dignity, searching for the male role within the family and the community and analyzing the

Brazilian family and society.

Specific education and training activities targeted to community-life have been carried out:

Prevention and primary socio-healthcare

training

Preparing the men-father figures through

the assumption of their responsibilities in

the family, in the community and in their education to couple and family life

Importance given to the development of

children’s education

It was fundamental to share knowledge about hygienic-healthcare aspects, infectious diseases,

sexually transmitted diseases and secondary pathologies linked to alcohol, drugs and

medication abuse. Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries of the initiative were more than 120 men, hundreds of families and all in all the

entire population living in the 6 communities in Cidade Olimpica in Sao Luis and in the

surrounding rural areas (around 60 000

inhabitants)

In October, November and December 2009 Giuliana Marzella was sent by Medicus Mundi

Italy to operate in Cidade Olimpica. An expert in

educational and social assistance projects addressed to minors, her role was to carry out

the socio-educational activities of the initiative

and to manage its administrative aspects on site.

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Thane District – Maharashtra State Duration

24 months (2007-2009)

Co-Financer

Region of Lombardy Local Partnership

Maharashtra Dayanand Society Other Partnerships

Canossian Provincialate “St. Francis

Xavier” – India Centre, Mumbai

Pardi Hospital Group

Canossian Foundation for the

Development of the Peoples, NGO Project Objective

Requalifying medical performances offered to patients in the Dayanand Hospital in Talasari.

The project aims to modernizing the structure

and services offered at the Dayanand Hospital in Talasari (Maharashtra St, India) so as to align

them with the standards required by the national and stately healthcare authorities, so that the

hospital’s services can be introduced in public

healthcare programs (Thane District Health Office and the Maharashtra Nursing Council).

The project provided for:

General requalification of health care

personnel (nurses, technicians, etc.)

Updating personnel working in out-patient

centres, hospitalization wards and

diagnostic centres (laboratory and radiology)

Specific training about transmitting and

treating HIV infections

Permanent Auxiliary Nurse Midwife Course

with focus on creating MCH – Mother and

Child Health – on treatment and health care education in villages and rural areas

Equipment renovation

The beneficiaries of the project have been:

Around 2500 patients per month (1.000

children, 300 young people and 1200

adults) who benefit from the Dayanand

Hospital services

Around 150 leprosy patients who turn to

treatments supplied by the hospital

6 nurses, 2 lab technicians and 19 “Village

Health Workeers”

In July 2008 Doctor Alessandro Pini and Doctor Veronica Bennato and later, in June 2009, Doctor

Veronica Del Punta and Doctor Elisa Bertoni

went on short missions to organize technical trainings to update registered health care

personnel. The trainings will also be targeted to the Dayanand Hospital to educate personnel on

infectious diseases still widespread in the region,

such as malaria, tubercolosis, gastro-intestinal infections and the impact that genetic diseases

such as “sickle cell” can have. The training also

aims to address problems linked to neonatal reanimation and emerging infectious diseases

such as HIV/AIDS.

India (Maharashtra)

PROJECT FOR REQUALIFYING THE

DAYANAND-HOSPITAL OF TALASARI-MAH AR ASHTR A ST ATE ( INDIA) ,

THROUGH REASSESSMENT AND RENO-

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DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION

STOP MALARIA NOW!

Co-Financer

European Commission

Place

Europe and Africa

Partners

Deutsches Medikamentenhilfswerk Action

Medeor e.V. – Germany (leader)

Stowarzyszenie Polska Misja Medyczna –

Poland

Fedracion de Asociaciones Medicus Mundi

Espana – Spain

Fundacja Pomocy Humanitarnej,

“Redemptoris Missio”

Medicus Mundi Poland – Poland

Eine Welt Netz NRW e. V. – Germany

CUAMM Doctors with Africa

Kenya NGO/Private Sector Alliance

against Malaria – Kenya

Duration

4 years (1st phase 2008-2009/2nd phase 2010-

2011)

Project Goals

Improving sensitivity on malaria in Europe by

activating public support to increase political, financial and strategic commitment on behalf of

European governments in fighting malaria and in

reaching the millennium development goal for

malaria.

STOP MALARIA NOW! Is a

campaign that includes s e v e r a l N G O s f r o m

Germany, Italy, Kenya,

P o l a n d , S p a i n a n d Switzerland which are

operative in health care and development projects. Stop

Malatia Now! promotes

campaigns on sensitivity,

advocacy, knowledge-sharing experiences in

fighting malaria, a disease strictly linked to

poverty and one of the main causes of death in

South-Sahara regions of Africa.

Health care coordinator for Italy: Doctor

Fabio Buelli

Secretariat and Logistics coordinator:

Doctor Sabrina De Nardi

The target groups of the initiative are:

European representatives for health care

and development of NGOs

Donors and private supporters of

European NGOs

Local, regional and national administrators

in health care and development in the

European Union

Local and national mass-media and

journalists

In occasion of the yearly Medicus Mundi Italy

Assembly (April 2009), the Scientific Convention “Stop Malaria Now!” was organized at the

University of Brescia (School of Medicine and

Surgery).

STOP MALARIA NOW! is organized with financial assistance from the European

Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Medicus Mundi Italia and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union

STOP MALARIA NOW!

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other activities in Italy

BRESCIA

Medicus Mundi Italy – “Bullettin” - The Medicus Mundi Italy “Bulletin” continues to be published regularly. In its simplicity it represents a useful tool to spread the news about our acitivity. A copy of

our “Bulletins” can be downloaded from our website (www.medicusmundi.it).

PIADENA

Event/Debate to support our projects in Burkina Faso on the themes of “Human Right to Health and

Life” – February 2009

BRESCIA

XXII Updating Course on Tropical Diseases - Dr. Myriam Brunelli, supported by Dr. Silvio

Caligaris, Dr. Paola Rossini, the chartered accountant Mrs. Cinzia Ferrante and by Mr. Osvaldo

Martelli’s technical lab, started the Course on Tropical Diseases, now at its 22nd edition. The course

has been recognized by the Italian Ministry of Health as formative activity acknowledged and credit to release credits in the “Continuing Education Program in Medicine” (ECM) – Italy, November

2009.

BRESCIA

Presentation of the Book “ Medicus Mundi Italy. 40 years dedicated to International health

care cooperation” - During 2009, “Medicus Mundi Italy – 40 years dedicated to International

health care cooperation”, edited by Monica Franchi (M.A.), went to press. The publication aims to

recall the 40 years of our Association’s history. The presentation to the press was in 2/12/2009, in a

location crowded with people and with the local press. December 2009.

BRESCIA

Partecipazione alla Tenda della Solidarità - ( Participation to the Solidarity Camp/Tent ). An

organized event during the “Consultation for the Peace of the People” of the Township of Brescia”,

an appointment traditionally recurring at the end of the year, and reuniting several cooperation and

international solidarity associations from Brescia.

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2009 BALANCE SHEET

2009 Positive Balance : € 20.180

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2009 balance sheet

Since 2008, Medicus Mundi Italy has decided to have the financial statements formally audited by the Studio Nas-

sini&Associati in Brescia, although there is no formal requirement to do so, as MMI believes that it is fundamental to

have an independent evaluation of their work.

To guarantee the future of such transparency with all its supporters and beneficiaries, MMI has decided to publish its

balance sheets and notes on its website.

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