To express our gratitude to achieve blood pressure monitor sales of 100 million units to the society, Omron Healthcare carried out a campaign for four months in Japan to donate a part of the blood pressure monitor sales to the Japan Committee for UNICEF to support the health project in Namibia, where many children have no access to the healthcare services. This fund-raising initiative will help UNICEF train health extension workers on child-caring practices and newborn care. And it will also help hold Child Health Days to provide vaccines, vitamin A supplementation, and insecticide-treated mosquito nets, as well as growth monitoring and promotion in children under age 5, and care of pregnant mothers and hygiene promotion. The project aims to cover more than 45,000 children under age 5 and 14,000 pregnant and lactating mothers.
Namibia of Southwest Africa is a country of the lowest population densities in the world as 21 thousand people, one sixtieth of Japan, live in the vast land twice as large as Japan.
Many people have to travel more than one hour to the nearest hospitals or health facilities, and most of children can not be given enough health services of vaccinations and examinations.
As HIV/AIDS is implicated in 53% of the under-five children, the mortality rate of infants, under- five children, and pregnant mothers has been increasing in recent years.
We support "Healthcare Project for Children and Women" by UNICEF by donating a part of blood pressure monitor sales and help lowering the mortality rate of infants and under-five children.
- Objective:
Lower the mortality rate of infants and under-five children. - Area:
Windhoek, Oshakati
(especially low performing districts of healthcare services.) - Population of targeted area:
58,000 of under-five children
14,000 of pregnant mothers
- Goals:
80% of the target population will be able to receive services below.- 1.Vaccination
- 2.Vitamin A supplementation
- 3.Distribution of insecticide treated nets for prevention of Malaria
(malaria endemic district of Oshakati) - 4.Growth monitoring
- Actions:
To achieve the goals above, we support the plans as below.- -Effective healthcare to prevent or find out diseases earlier at households by educating Health Extension workers.
Help provide supplies to meet the shortfalls. - -Child Health Days to accelerate action to promote health and well being of the children by providing general health services such as vaccination, micronutrient supplementation, and growth monitoring.
- -Effective healthcare to prevent or find out diseases earlier at households by educating Health Extension workers.
