A small health clinic in the south of New Delhi, doctors and community health workers are tackling the tuberculosis crisis in their midst. This one location manages the care of almost 100 TB patients, including drug-resistant forms of the disease — difficult, expensive and often deadly.
Waiting. At a clinic near Worcester, South Africa. I’m back posting again, and finally on a subject that is my everyday work: tuberculosis and global health
A woman waits with her family members in the triage area of Lilongwe’s Kamuzu Central Hospital.
In an almost-dark hallway at Kamuzu Central Hospital.
At the Healthy Center in Mpemba, a Health Surveillance Assistant (HSA) distributes Coartem for children, an artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for the treatment of acute, uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
One of the many positive outcomes of Likalawe’s monthly outreach clinics is the gratitude of the villagers. And few gestures could better signify this goodwill than what Agnes Sumali does for the HSAs that make the monthly trip from Mpemba.
Some of the smiling kids in the village, excited to talk to their visitors.
A mother with her children after the mobile outreach clinic in Likalawe Village, Malawi.
On the second Tuesday of each month, about 6km beyond the village of Mpemba, where the narrow road hugs a hillside over rocks and streams, there is a clinic. The clinic isn’t a flashy building with bright hallways and fancy equipment, although there is a lot of natural light. There isn’t even a building at all.
At the mobile outreach clinic, organized monthly from the Mpemba Healthy Center.
The Children’s Ward at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe. The closest beds are in the “Red Zone,” with the sickest children and getting the highest attention from staff.
Just outside the main room of the Pediatric Ward, two mothers wait with their children.
Nurse Kunkeyani, outside the maternity unit where she works, at Kamuzu Central Hospital.
A father waits with his son in the Emergency Department of Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe.