CLINIC & HOSPITAL VISITS

With 54 children in our care we have a very busy department handling the medical care and supervision of the needs of our children for regular check-ups at the clinic, hospital visits and the administration of regular and chronic medications.
The transportation and chaperoning of the clinic and hospital visits is carried out by our German volunteers and designated medical officer who do a wonderful job which often involves them spending many hours at the hospitals waiting for their little patients to be seen or admitted.
Many of our children are born into this world in very impoverished conditions and are immediately subjected to a life of malnutrition and immune deficiency resulting in serious medical complications by the time they are admitted into our care.
For interest, the average waiting time from arrival at a hospital until departure is a minimum of 4 hours for general routine check-ups. In emergency situations when a child needs to be admitted to hospital this waiting time extends to about 12 hours.
Some appointments are in Pietermaritzburg which is a 45 minute drive from Richmond. More special medical needs require us to transport the child to Durban some 110 km from Richmond. We have many transport challenges to handle all these needs among others.