Staff member Moses with family at outreach clinic
We’d like to share our impact numbers from the calendar year 2023 with you. These numbers demonstrate our growth and our expanding reach in the Tikonko Chiefdom. With the help of our many supporters, donors, and several small grants, RHCI is accomplishing its mission to partner with rural communities in Sierra Leone, to rebuild health care systems and to overcome one of the world’s highest mortality rates for women and children.
Since it’s founding over a decade ago, RHCI has focussed its programs in the Tikonko Chiefdom on mothers, babies and children. Over 1300 pregnant and post-partum women and babies have stayed at our two Birth Waiting Homes in Tikonko and Gondama since 2018, giving them access to skilled care for childbirth. The lives of many mothers and babies have been saved as a result of RHCI’s in-country dedicated staff and the resources provided from the USA.
Our impact for 2023:
Malnourished baby
- 6477 Child medical visits at the Outreach mobile clinics in Tikonko and Gondama catchment areas
- 286 Pregnant/post-partum women and babies stays at the 2 RHCI Birth Waiting Homes and 142 at remote health posts supported by RHCI
- 143 Hospitalizations for high risk deliveries supported by RHCI at Bo District Hospital
- 275 Child hospitalizations at Bo Children’s Hospital supported by RHCI
- 5905 Individuals treated through two remote clinics (Kassama and Sembehun Tabema)
- 2274 Children under 5 updated on vaccines, vitamin A and deworming medication
- 1874 Child malnutrition visits for moderate and severe acute malnutrition
- 3319 Family planning consultations by RHCI Staff with supplies provided
- 1700 nurse visits to newborns as part of the newborn nurse home visit program
- 658 children treated for malaria in their villages by Health Workers trained and equipped by RHCI
- 18 Full-time and over 60 part-time local staff employed by RHCI
- 481 Basic obstetric ultrasounds performed by RHCI Staff using RHCI equipment
Each point of impact improved and sometime even saved the life of the individual being treated.
Thank you to the generous and faithful donors to RHCI who truly are partners in our work. Because of you, we are able to make a big difference in the lives of many families in Sierra Leone. Together we are making the world a better place.
Health worker with child receiving Vitamin A
Mother with her children at outreach clinic
Mother holding baby with Malaria