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Rapporto Medicus Mundi Italia 20092009
2009 Report
Medicus Mundi Italia
Via Martinengo da Barco 6/A— 25121 BRESCIA
Tel.: +39 030 3752517— Fax: +39 030 43266
www.medicusmundi.it [email protected]
Rapporto Medicus Mundi Italia 20092009
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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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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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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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.
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Fighting AIDS in the District of Sector 30 of Ouagadougou and the Rural District of Nanoro
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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
Duration of the Project
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.
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IMPROVING THE DRINKING-WATER SUP-
PLY IN THE MAKAW HOSPITAL –
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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
Duration of the Project
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.
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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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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
Duration of the Project
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.
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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
Duration of the Project
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.
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SUPPORTING THE MATERNAL-INFANT HEALTHCARE PROGRAM – Integral
Attention for Prevalent Childhood Diseases
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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”
Duration of the Project
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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Place
Cidade Olimpica, Sao Luis (Maranhao) – Brazil
Duration of the Project
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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Place
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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projects - Asia
Place
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
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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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