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Background The motivation for this project stemmed from the concerns of Kenyan flower farm owner Steve Scott and his wife Claire. In the summer of 2007 Steve and Claire were moved to consider how they could effect meaningful improvements to local health care provision after stepping-in to help the desperately ill son of one of their workers. The young boy was close to death when Claire persuaded his father to allow her to rush him to a private clinic. He was saved. Prior to this the family had received wrong and dangerous advice from a local doctor. He had claimed that the boy had swallowed a tooth and when he finally passed it he would recover. They had waited and their son deteriorated. The private clinic made a quick diagnosis and the boy’s life preserved. He was simply suffering from dehydration. The lack of affordable health care provision and the severe ignorance of health care issues is a serious problem in the Bahati community. Following this event Steve and Claire asked three medical students, then at St Andrews University, to come over to Kenya. The original idea was to research the health care needs of the workers of Steve’s farm and to initiate plans to meet these. Getting started The Bahati Health Project was established by Bobbie King, Olly Corbett and Lyndsey Black in November 2008 in response to Steve and Claire’s request. The team managed to raise £3,800 through various events and many generous contributions from friends and family. This enabled them to embark on the project’s trip to Bahati in June 2009. Last summer’s project was a major success. The team interviewed many individuals and visited local families. They researched the way that healthcare worked in local hospitals. They converted a room on the farm into a clinic, designing the layout of the room and the furniture it required, meeting with a local craftsman and commissioning him to build these. They appointed a nurse and a part-time doctor and then discussed with them the day-to-day running of the clinic. They met with a pharmacist and ordered the drugs that the clinic needs. They cleaned, painted, and organised the administrative side of the clinic.
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