Medical Teams International

In fy22, Medical Teams shipped Medical supplies and equipment, ppe and vitamins to armenia, dominican republic, greece, guatemala, haiti, honduras, liberia, mexico, moldova, nicaragua c.a., nigeria, romania, ukraine, and the united states.bangladesh: in fy22, the joint rohingya response program (jrrp), comprising the food for the hungry (fh) and Medical Teams International partnership, sought to address the overall health and rehabilitation of affected communities in the rohingya refugee camps in cox's bazar district. The program delivered a comprehensive package of services by addressing specific health needs of vulnerable populations through direct health services, health system strengthening, and community system strengthening. Additionally, jrrp responded to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. During fy22, the partnership reached about 150,000 rohingya refugees and 24,000 host community members. After the closure of the grant, Medical Teams closed the bangladesh office due to not being able to obtain direct country registration. Colombia: in fy22, Medical Teams continued its programming to address barriers to health through health promotion, disease prevention activities, Medical screenings and referrals, and subsidized maternal and child health services to venezuelan migrants in colombia. During fy22, the colombia office completed its first year of its prm award, which saw the organization more than double in size in terms of staff and target locations, and more than triple in terms of people reached. As a part of this growth, colombia opened 3 new offices, recruited a technical team of eight to improve program quality, and enhanced their logistics and hr departments. 45,034 people were served through the health programming in fy22 in colombia. Ethiopia: in fy22, Medical Teams scaled up its response in ethiopia and expanded into amhara and afar regions while continuing to work in tigray. Medical Teams in ethiopia works with health posts and clinics that were damaged during conflict to reestablish themselves with Medical staff, essential drugs, and community based work. 60,516 consultations were given by mobile Medical Teams and 1,746 women received at least one prenatal care visit. Larger institutional funding was secured and the team grew frand the team grew from 25 staff to 130. Despite continued security risks, the program is reaching those most in need of critical healthcare while maintaining the safety of the staff. Guatemala: in fy22, Medical Teams helped 1,940 families with children under two with water systems, latrines, and stoves. Medical Teams staff trained 236 ministry of health staff on critical topics and overall reached 11,346 people. Also during fy22, the guatemala program was closed, due to loss in funding from of their primary donor. While the program had been very impactful, Medical Teams decided to close the office and focus efforts on more emergency contexts. Lebanon: in fy22, Medical Teams continued its work serving syrian refugees in the bekaa valley in lebanon. Refugee outreach volunteers conducted home visits for 2,432 individualsthe program also includes mental health and psychosocial support (mhpss) through a licensed psychologist offering individual counseling and group psychosocial support. In fy22, Medical Teams conducted 441 individual mental health consultations with 93% reporting improved functioning and decreased systems. Due to the number of other actors providing similar services, and lack of intuitional funding, the lebanon office was closed during fy22.sudan: in fy22, Medical Teams continued to work in response to the conflict in tigray ethiopia causing an influx of refugees into southern sudan. Medical Teams supported primary health clinics in um rakouba camp, um gargour camp, and babikri camp and their surrounding host communities in gedaref state. Medical Teams has built up a team of staff both in khartoum and at the gedaref level.the team and reach grew significantly, ending at 42 nutrition sites and 3 health care centres with a catchment area of around 203,000 people. Tanzania: in fy22, Medical Teams continued operations in western tanzania, providing health services in nyarugusu, mtendeli and nduta refugee camps. Medical Teams continued as a unhcr health-implementing partner in the camps, providing reproductive healthcare, community outreach, referral services to secondary and tertiary health clinics and nutrition support to vulnerable populations. Medical Teams also continued its partnership with the u.s. department of state to strengthen community health services through support of community health workers, improve outcomes in reproductive health including emergency obstetric care, and build capacity and sustainability of local health services through equipping and supplying clinics, and training clinical staff. Medical Teams improved access to quality health care in the camps for over 200,000 refugees from burundi and democratic republic of congo, and tanzanians who access care in the camps. Uganda: Medical Teams is implementing emergency and preventative health care programming through targeted relief and development strategies in the northwestern, southwestern, and western regions of uganda. Medical Teams is a lead health implementing partner for unhcr in nakivale and oruchinga settlements in southwest uganda, kyangwali, kyaka ii and rwamwanja settlements in midwestern uganda, and in adjumani (12 settlements) and moyo/obongi district (palorinya settlement) districts in west nile. The team in uganda responded to refugee influxes, covid19, and ebola crises. The country office strengthened its risk assessments and awareness and continued to influence the health sector in uganda with active engagement in coordination. Across uganda in fy22, Medical Teams provided comprehensive health and nutrition support to 1,193,173 people. Medical Teams conducted 1,387,244 primary healthcare outpatient consultations and supported 31,544 live births at health facilities.ukraine and moldova: in fy22, Medical Teams sent a team to eastern europe following the start of the war in ukraine. In the initial months, Medical Teams operated in moldova, offering support to local organizations and refugees through Medical volunteers and donations of supplies. 115 moldovan border guards were trained in psychological first aid, cpr, and trauma first aid. 981 consultations were provided in moldova. Medical Teams expanded into ukraine during fy22, working through partners and directly offering services through pharmacies and mobile Medical teams.7,784 people were directly served by Medical teams.us programs: the domestic expression of Medical Teams International, serving the health needs of vulnerable populations in the states of Oregon and Washington, uses a mobile clinic model. Our thirteen large mobile clinic vehicles, designed for dental services, can also provide Medical services. This year we officially launched our care & connect program, integrating Medical and dental services, along with medicaid eligibility and verification, enrollment, and referrals to other care providers as needed. Medical services are primarily chronic disease and behavioral health screening and education, along with vaccinations. Our covid-19 testing and vaccination services persisted, however began to slow from prior year as some demand fell. We continued to be the primary provider of covid-19 services for the state of Washington in the farmworker population. In fy22 we stood up 1,569 mobile clinics, where one clinic equals a clinic day in service at a partner site. We served a total of 43,712 people including 6,393 dental encounters, provided 26,167 covid-19 vaccinations, 9,448 covid-19 tests, and made 1,828 referrals. Again, there were no known cases of clinic covid transmission during the year. We tracked 10,336 hours of volunteer provider service, worked with 133 community partners, and valued our services at $4.98 million. Forty-nine percent of those we served were non-white, and 21% were under 18 years old. This was our second year collecting demographic data and our process is still in its infancy. Us programs will continue the same organizational structure with two lines of programmatic business and a support team for services such as it, hr, finance, grants administration, fleet management and medicaid billing, funded by the program.