How do we keep people from dying?

I’ll try and steer away from the dying in Mozambique topic, by looking at the question, ‘’How do we keep people from dying?”

Given proper resources, we can do the basics of health education, better information about AIDS prevention, much better nutrition, and better information about health during pregnancy, birth, and raising newborns and infants.

But one of the biggest needs at Maforga, is to get the medical clinic staffed, stocked, and up and running again.

There is a beautiful building, that for a number of years, was home to a thriving medical clinic which was watched over by Joan Goodman “Nana” who looked after patients, sometimes up to 100 per day, even into her early 80s. Nana is still at Maforga, but retired now, and so far, no one has come to take her place.

The building is still there, still beautiful, but the clinic could serve an incredibly vital role again both for the orphanage, and the surrounding villages if it were once again in operation.

Pray for people to be available and open and willing to come and help to work and perhaps train others so that the clinic can be re-opened again. That is one way that we can keep people from dying.

The clinic building, is steps away from the church building at Maforga, and in the end, they serve the same purpose. The clinic, healing from physical disease and death, and the church, healing from spiritual disease and death.

Outside waiting area (this will need some repair, and cleanup.)

Inside, with a large central area, and several private examination and treatment rooms, electricity, running water, showers and toilets.