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We are thrilled that Duty-Free News International has chosen to support our Lifeline Clinic through their event in April 2010.
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Expedition & Wilderness Medicine for supporting through their Desert Medicine Training Course.
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Standard Bank for sponsoring six months medicine supply for the Lifeline Clinic
Working at N/a’an ku sê helped me to further realise my ambitions to become a Dr, so much so that I’m thinking of working in Namibia when I qualify. Volunteering there has been the most worthwhile thing I’ve ever done.

Lucy Garrard, UK - volunteer June 2008
 
 
The clinic was set up in 2003 to provide primary healthcare to thsi remote community after tragic and unnecessary death of a San Bushman child.


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THE STORY OF THE LIFELINE CLINIC SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend
 
     
  It was a cold August morning in 2003. A Bushmen woman brought her ill baby to the back door of a farmhouse in Eastern Namibia. She was desperate. Marlice van Vuuren, a well-known Namibian conservationist and trusted friend of the Bushmen called her husband Dr. Rudie van Vuuren. The child had severe respiratory distress, was severely malnourished and in a critical state.

The nearest hospital was 100km away. Rudie phoned the ambulance at the hospital and demanded that they come and get the child at once. It was a public holiday in Namibia and Rudie could hear that the ambulance driver was not very keen to come and pick up the child. Two hours after the call Rudie realised that they would have to take the child to the nearest town, Gobabis, themselves.

They put up an IV line modified from an animal IV set, got in the car and drove to Gobabis. As they walked into the hospital the child went into cardio respiratory arrest. Marlice ran to the nursing station where three Herero nurses were sitting. They did not even get off their chairs as she explained the situation to them. Marlice and Rudie found the theatre and tried to resuscitate the child. The child died that day.

In retrospect it became evident that there was severe medical negligence, mainly because the child was Bushmen. Marlice and Rudie knew that they had to start doing something about the health needs of this precious and poorly treated community. They joined together with their long time pharmacist friend Chris Heunis and decided to act. Chris started donating medicine for the Bushmen people while Rudie and Marlice started doing informal clinics. It soon became clear that the need was far greater and they needed a permanent facility to run their clinics.

Through a series of sponsorships and donations, they were able to get the funds together to buy a building and start up the Lifeline Clinic in Epukiro.

Help us continue to provide treatment to the marginalized Bushman community by making a donation to our Lifeline Clinic pay for a patient scheme.


  
     
     

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