By RODRICK DESURI
Auki
The people of the Kiu Community in West Are‘are, Malaita Province thank BMedical team through UNICEF for the successful installation of a new solar direct drive vaccine refrigerator for Kiu clinic.
This solar direct drive vaccine refrigerator will preserve vaccine for newborn babies.
Kiu clinic was without a vaccine refrigerator to preserve vaccine for newborn babies for years, since their old refrigerator stopped functioning.
The installation of the machine was made possible by team last month, according to the registered nurse at the clinic, Mavis Surutaro.
She said with the installation of the new refrigerator, they can now preserve vaccine for newborn babies and that the lives of their babies are now safe without any fear.
“Yes, we have been facing a tough time with our old vaccine refrigerator since it stopped functioning a few years ago, which put our babies’ lives at risk by not their full required nilas (vaccine).
“But with this new one, we can now preserve our Nila for babies,” she said.
Surutaro said before this vaccine refrigerator came, they couldn’t give babies their full required treatment.
“So, we are so happy and excited that UNICEF and BMedical team stepped in to install a new refrigerator at our clinic,” she said.
In the meantime, she calls on their Member of Parliament, the provincial government, and anyone with a good heart to support them with an ablution block for the clinic.
Island Sun understands that the Kiu clinic is operating without any ablution block, forcing sick patients to relieve themselves by the seaside which in turn, causes environment health issues.
BMedical is an Australian owned company specialising in the distribution of innovative equipment for Physiological Monitoring and Sleep Disorders.
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