Covid-19 Health Education Campaign
After the outbreak of COVID-19, the Clinic supported a health education project in Az-Zawrat. The health workers – including the Clinic staff, medical students from the University of Dongola, and practitioners from the Sudanese Red Crescent Society – visited all households and taught how COVID-19 is transmitted, distancing and hygiene practices, and gave each household antiseptic soap and hand sanitizer. They provided the schools with hand sanitizer and soap.
Expanded maternal and child health program
A donation from Mr. Ronald Cheng in memory of his father, Mr. Chen Young Fang, has upgraded the maternal and child health services at the Kolomiseed Health Center. The donation provided new equipment for the delivery room and the hiring of two midwives, who work at the Clinic and also do home visits for prenatal and postnatal monitoring and baby wellness and development monitoring. The Clinic now provides services including reproductive health, child nutrition and development, healthy childhood, immunizations, and public health education.
Oxygen
Ms. Amna Osman of the Soraya Organization and Dr. Nada Fadul of SudanNextGen informed the Mother Maryam Foundation that the Dongola Covid-19 Isolation Center had run out of oxygen supplies, resulting in patient deaths. They spearheaded a successful fundraising campaign that enabled the purchase and distribution of 50 oxygen tanks to the Dongola Isolation Center and to 26 hospitals and clinics throughout the Northern Province.
Free Health Days
The Kolomiseed Health Care Center hosts several Free Health Care Days each year, with visiting specialists (gastroenterologist, eye doctor, dentist, gynecologist, surgeon, orthopedist, psychiatrist, and pediatrician) from the provincial capital. The Clinic staff and visiting specialists examine and treat patients. Treatment and medications are provided free of charge. The events often include a health education component.
Specialty clinics
They also host Ophthalmological Days and Dental Days, with visiting teams of students and specialists.
Kolomiseed Clinic’s help to victims of 2020 flooding
During the flooding in the fall of 2020, the Clinic hosted a free health care caravan with the University of Dongola Faculty of Medicine, the Sudanese Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, local health authorities and the Omdurman National Bank. The Clinic staff and other team members provided food, medicine, health care, and environmental health services to villages ranging all the way from Wadi Halfa in the north to Meroe in the south.
At that time, the Clinic also hosted a mobile clinic sponsored by a German – Saudi – UAE charity. Twelve health care workers from the charity provided a mobile clinic and tents outside the Kolomiseed Health Center. They offered free testing, medication, and treatments to over 200 patients. The village community provided food, lodging, and hospitality to the health care workers.
Vaccinations
The Clinic has hosted vaccination campaigns sponsored by UNICEF and other international organizations. Parents bring children to be vaccinated and the school sends classes of students to get their necessary inoculations against yellow fever, measles, polio, and other devastating diseases.
The Kolomiseed Clinic’s ongoing needs
After the outbreak of COVID-19, the Clinic supported a health education project in Az-Zawrat. The health workers – including the Clinic staff, medical students from the University of Dongola, and practitioners from the Sudanese Red Crescent Society – visited all households and taught how COVID-19 is transmitted, distancing and hygiene practices, and gave each household antiseptic soap and hand sanitizer. They provided the schools with hand sanitizer and soap.
