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- Kenya '09
- Tanzania '09
- Dharan '08
- Kathmandu '08
- Chitwan '08
- Pokhara '08
- Spiti '08
In the third week of march 2009 a Medical Checks for Children team visited Kenia, checked and treated children
aged 12 years and below free of cost. The team consisted of nine doctors and five non-medics.
Our host during the Kenia stay was archbishop Makarios, head of the Greek Orthodox Seminary Riruta.
The medical checks were organized in close cooperation with the Sophia Foundation for Children.
The nearest Clinic is the Riruta Clinic on the grounds of the archbishop Makarios and the nearest hospital Koptic Hospital,
which MCC visited on an explorative mission in 2008.
Technical equipment and some of the supplies were brought from Europe by MCC team members.
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Diary of Joris de Vries
Joris de Vries is projectmanager with FD Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. In close cooperation with this organisation
MCC organised a mission in august 2009.
On this mission Joris wrote a diary.
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In the first week of December 2008 a Medical Checks for Children team lead by paediatrician Inès von Rosenstiel checked and treated 797 children, free of cost, at 4 different locations in Kathmandu valley.
The medical checks are organised in close cooperation with the NGO Bal-Balika-Nepal of Susanne Volkmann with assistance from Ram Thapa of the Honorary Royal Nepalese Consulate. and the NGO C.H.A.N.C.E. for Nepal, VK of Barbara Datson.
The scheduled team members come from the Netherlands and Germany. Due to political turnmoil in Thailand and India on the dates of scheduled flight from Europe to Nepal, it was impossible for the German team leader Suzanne Volkmann and members Marika Guillaume and Stefan Redlich to join us in time. MCC shows great gratitude for their financial and organizational efforts and support during the preparations for this year’s jointed mission.
Besides Inès von Rosenstiel, the other doctors in the team were Beatrijs Bartels, pediatric cardiologist, Marion Eckart, pediatrician, Gebrand van den Bosch, resident psychiatry Annemarie Schalkwijk, internship Kanti Children’s Hospital, Kathmandu.
The Dutch team was completed bij Rachel Rijnders, intensive care nurse, Michiel Cohen de Lara, board member MCC and Marijke Cohen de Lara, psychologist.
The medical checks were performed at the following 4 locations:
1. Orphan Children's Rescue Centre (OCRC)
2. Hatiban Social Service Centre, Setideri and Aryja Tara School (only for quality control)
3. Jalupa School, Baniyatar
4. Triple Gem School
As with most medical missions, we made efforts to include local medical workers in the care of the children. We greatly respected their vast knowledge and experience. Medical workers and teachers would like to especially thank Ishwar and Jarin our translators and medical helpers for their great support dunning the whole week.
This trip has been another wonderful experience in our lives. Personally we are happy to have seen Thamel’s streets filled with tourists again after long years of political instability.
We are looking forward to return to Nepal in 2009.
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In the second week of November MCC has organised a mission to the Sauhara ares in Nepal. For MMC known as the Chitwan-mission.
Is has been the 4th mission to this area.
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At the end of October 2008 a Medical Checks for Children team lead by Kees Donkervoort head of the Bethesda Hospital of Hoogeveen and Thea Teertstra paediatrician/ Intensivist checked and treated 830 children, free of cost, at 7 different locations 1000 miles west of Kathmandu around Pokhara.
The medical checks are organised in close cooperation with Chandra Bahadur Gurung, an ex Gurka and co founder of the Pahar Trust in Nepal. Last year this mission was lead by Barbara Datson, she is the founder of this mission around Pokhara and because of health problems she could not join us!
Besides Kees Donkervoort en Thea Teertstra, the other doctors in the team where Christine van Ingen pediatrician, Petra Tjalsma, Joost Overgaauw and Florentien de Steenwinkel. The team was completed bij Karin van Breemen and Janny Heeringa, both pediatric nurses and Juliet Overgaauw a teacher in the nursery class.
The first half of the medical checks were conducted in the mountains staying at Kharpani Eco Lodge with no electricity or gas.
The medical checks where performed at the following locations:
Annapurna School, Sayapatri, Himalaya School, Navadeep School in Pokhara , Kanya M.V school in Pokhara, Krishna Tole and Nicki Holt’s Hope for Himalayan kids and Rainbow village.
Like last year, word had gone around to villages within the vicinity that the MCC team would be arriving, and children with their families all converged to the lodge for a medical check.
This year there where less children than before in this area, they all had to work on the land till the second week of November. This can be important information for the missions in this area in the following years. It seems to be better when we check three weeks later, at the end of November.
As with most medical missions, we made efforts to include local medical workers in the care of the children. We greatly respected their vast knowledge and experience. We would like to especially thank our translators and medical helpers for their great support during the whole week.
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In the second week of July 2008, a team from Medical Checks for Children (MCC) led by physician Luc Coffeng, checked and treated 507 children, aged 16 years and below, free of cost.
The health camp was organised for six days starting the 10th of July, at four different locations in the vicinity of Kaza, Spiti Valley, India. Starting in 2006, MCC visited Spiti Valley for the third time in 2008.
The MCC team consisted of ten members from The Netherlands of which three had already participated in earlier MCC checks in Spiti Valley.
The medical checks were organised in close cooperation with the Munsel-ling School and the Rinchen Zangpo Society for Spiti Development in Rangrik. The Munsel-ling School is a Tibetan based Buddhist school which was inaugurated by H.H. the the 14th Dalai Lama in 1996.
The school currently teaches about 350 children of which about 180 live in hostels on the school premises where they are cared for by ‘hostel-mothers’.
MCC also collaborated with a Canadian team of medical students and residents from the University of British Columbia, led by dr. Videsh Kapoor (family doctor). Their objective was to assess, advise and set up programmes for the school in matters of Public Health problems (sanitation, hygiene, nutrition, helminth-infections, anaemia).
Technical equipment and some of the supplies were brought from Europe by MCC team members. Most of the medication was ordered through the internet from the Lady Willington Mission Hospital In Manali and delivered to Kaza Mission Hospital
The Munsel-ling School provided accommodation, transport, food, and local human resources (translators and volunteers) in order to facilitate the medical checks.
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