Reference :
V-P-YE-E-01015
Date :
11/03/2013
Caption :
Abyan Governorate, Bateis Health Centre. The consulting room is full of woman in black abayas and their sickly children. The Health Centre staff are encouraging mothers to bring their children to be vaccinated.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
Bateis Health Centre was established in 1975 by the local community, using their own funds, the Centre is a place of welcome and care. Even through years of conflict and unrest in the region it remained open, although when supplies ran low, patients number tumbled. "Last summer there were only about ten consultations a day", explained Nasser, Director of the centre, "now as many as 80 people come here daily".
Although small in size, and rather nondescript from the outside with a dry, yellowing garden and wilting flowers, it feels, on the inside, like a place where people can find hope as well as a cure.
The Bateis Health Centre is one of 12 governement-run health facilitiies supported by the ICRC all over Yemen. The ICRC supported it since the summer of 2012. Its assistance includes a monthly supply of drugs, dressings and other medical items for the primary health-care programme, on-the-job staff training, clinical supervision and health education.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
4272x2848
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
