MICROHEALTH GLOBAL CONSULTING

We are bringing back Home Calls and Home Visits by clinicians in an integration and collaborative form. The revised and updated traditions are among the most effective methods of sustaining healthcare in developing countries in the 21^st century. Our blueprints are guided by extensive research and validations:

A.      Donating Medical Equipment, Supplies and Medications

B.      Designing Healthcare Management ( i) HR Management, ii) IT Management, iii) Patient Management, and iv) Other Resources Management)

C.      Training/Maintenance ( i) HR Training ii) IT Training iii) Mentoring, iv) Leadership Training v) Equipment Usage Training vi) Collaborative Empowerment Training vii) Equipment Maintenance Training viii) Audit and Data analysis and xv) R & D 

D.      Microfinance for Healthcare Sustainability ( i) Work Program Modeling ii) Work Program Implementation iii) Agricultural Product Storage iv) Marketing)

E.       African Awareness Week (Case studies and best practices through world symposiums – Cohort Learning)

These are the hallmark of MH-GC Public Charity signature programs. They are controlled by two drivers:

1)       Partners Healthcare Management Engine (Modeling Instrument)

2)       Quasi Healthcare Microfinance Engine (Modeling and Real Time implementation simulation of Terminal Objectives)

Help us end dependency

Desmond Cohen of United Nations Development Program (UNDP) supports poverty reduction programs as a way of improving and sustaining healthcare. He notes that, “poor nutrition leads to poor health which is an important cause of low labor productivity and thus the persistence of low incomes for the poor. Poor and damp housing is a major factor in causing illnesses such as tuberculosis, which is itself exacerbated by the HIV epidemic”. Sub-Sahara Africa faces most of the complex healthcare challenges in the regional blocks of the world. The healthcare challenges are compounded by the differences of more than a thousand cultures and sub-cultures, and belief systems that comprise tribes. Though Sub-Sahara Africa holds most of the poorest people in the world, the region is the richest in housing resources for example minerals, timber, rubber, oil, coffee, cocoa and banana. Microhealth Global Consulting provides answers to the healthcare situation of Sub-Saharan Africa.  

CAMEROON (WEST AFRICAN COUNTRY) AS A CASE STUDY

Healthcare Human Resources of Cameroon

(Ministry of Public Health (MSP) 2006)

• Physician/population      = 1/7,000 (15000)
• Nurse/population            = 1/800 (2351)
• Hospital per population = 1/1200 (30,000)
• Hospital bed/population = 1/389
• Dentists/population         = 1/254,237

These statistics represent similar cases in many countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

Mobile Healthcare Safety Net and Healthcare Insurance Exchange programs do not interfere with other community medical care projects in the region but provide reinforcements for ongoing healthcare efforts, with the primary goal of sustaining medical care improvements through a stable employment. Healthcare insurance exchange acts as a catalyst to sustain projects that are working, reducing the culture of dependency.

One out of five children in Africa will be dead before his or her fifth birthday.  In areas like West Africa, where they are faced with the most serious of health problems, they often have the fewest of resources to care for those children. They are often confronted with a poor infrastructure, limited health facilities, shortage of trained medical staff and an overuse of counterfeit medications.  In order to save lives and advance health care, these issues must be addressed openly and honestly together.  In order to improve health care in those communities, we must work hand-in hand with those most affected to help address their most critical challenges.  Microhealth Global Consulting has six basic principles: results, efficiency, cost effective, sustainability, accountability and transparency.  By eliminating counterfeit and illicit drugs with various strategies and through target outreach programs that include home visits on foot and motorbikes by medical staff, MH-GC will be able to address the challenges many face in West Africa.

Bringing Sustainable Healthcare to Developing Countries

Problem Statement using African Countries as Examples: Africans need more hospitals that are staffed with trained medical doctors, nurses and other medical staffs and are managed effectively. The hospital should have equipment, supplies, medications and a well designed patient management system in place. In cases where the hospitals are staffed and equipped, often patients complain of lack of adequate medical attention or the lack of means to reach the hospitals or health Centers. In most cases, these complaints result from healthcare leadership failures. These issues are routine in almost every country in Sub-Sahara Africa.  The lack of oversight, accountability and effective supervision are problems in almost all the regions. The simple truth is that we can provide all the equipment, supplies and medications a hospital needs and still not see an impact in the lives of patients if there are no healthcare management strategy and effective leadership in place. The sad story for most rural regions in Sub-Sahara Africa is the lack of almost everything associated with medical care. Most indigenes in villages have stopped looking for places where to obtain medical treatment.  The solutions are not how to raise funds and construct more hospitals but how to upgrade and effectively use the facilities already in place to provide medical care. In addition, the solution is how to reach villagers where medical care is lagging and provide preventive care, primary care and effective follow-up treatment to the indigenes. 

Effective provision of preventive and primary care reduce in most cases the number of long-term hospitalizations in traditional hospital settings. Therefore, outreach Mobile Clinics, called Mobile Healthcare Safety-Net Clinics provides a smarter and effective way to reach patients in villages. Microhealth global Consulting solutions provides integrated outreach programs that combine Mobile Healthcare Safety-Net Clinics, motorbike ambulances and healthcare professionals who walk to homes for home visits, follow-ups and transportation of critically ill patients to the Mobile Healthcare Safety-Net Clinic or nearby hospitals for further medical treatment. Each Mobile Healthcare Safety-Net Clinic has two consulting rooms, patient waiting room, lab, x-ray, a treatment room, and a pharmacy. A wireless electronic medical record is installed to collect patient data for follow-up treatment, reviewed by other physicians located at the Head Quarters of Microhealth Global Consulting to provide a collaborative patient treatment environment, ensure that medical staff are following proper protocols, safety to patients and are accountable for each case treated.