Nino Tsintsadze, 60, is asthmatic. Not great news when you live up a mountain, far from medical help. But Oxfam Unwrapped has opened ten health centres in the mountainous communities of Georgia, will also train doctors and nurses in disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Nino’s outlook is now much healthier.
Oxfam Unwrapped likes to reach the parts that other aid cannot reach. We identified vulnerable populations of ten communities living in the autonomous Republic of Ajara, West Georgia as being in particular need of help.
To ensure the people in these communities had adequate primary health care services, we needed people to deliver them. Therefore, the first step was to train some doctors and nurses in modern disease prevention techniques, diagnosis and treatment.
Once we had the people we wanted, we needed to kit them out, so we bought and distributed enough health and medical supplies and equipment to bring health – and help – to people just like Nino. She has suffered from asthma for the last 10 years, but now she has access to free Ventol and regular check-ups.
Now Nino gets her medicine, and regular check-ups, at her local health centre and can work at home and support herself.