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Health check

Health check

For poor communities health care may be unaffordable or unavailable. This gift brings doctors, nurses and medicines within the reach of more people.

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About this item

When it comes to staying healthy, we think that everyone should have the right to professional care. But it’s not an option for most poor communities, where health care may be unaffordable, inaccessible or just unavailable. This gift will help us bring doctors, nurses, and medicines within the reach of many more people.

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This gift supports our advocacy (AD) projects.

Delivery & returns

All gifts are sent by 1st class post within 3 working days of when you place your order.  An optional delivery contribution of £1.70  per order for deliveries within the UK will be suggested during checkout, to help us cover costs. You can pay the suggested amount, increase or decrease your contribution, or pay nothing at all. You choose.

If you're in a hurry you can also send a gift E-card, at no extra cost, which will be sent as soon as you place your order. 

Please note that Oxfam Unwrapped gifts count as a donation, so our no quibble returns policy does not apply, and under Charity Commission rules, we are unable to give you a refund.

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Giving this gift

When you buy an Oxfam Unwrapped gift you can be confident that the real gift will be sent to where it's needed most.   

We will send you (or your friend or family member if you prefer) a gift card that tells them what they've been bought and how it will help to improve someone's life.  You can add little extras during checkout, which are posted at the same time.

You'll be given the opportunity to customise your gift card or E-card during checkout and specify your delivery details. 


Health check

This gift in action

Sierra Leone in West Africa is one of the world’s poorest countries. And it also has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates, which is worrying if you’re a mum-to-be. But thanks in part to Oxfam-supported lobbying, free health care is a reality for more and more mothers, babies and young children. And it’s an initiative that Oxfam is helping to sustain, pushing for more international funding to provide the doctors, nurses and medicines which will keep mums like Abibatu Saneh and her baby Zainab, healthy. Providing free care has made a big difference to the numbers of poor people able to use the country’s health services. The number of women giving birth in hospital doubled in the month after the policy was introduced, the number of infants under five attending health centres rose by 179 per cent, and malaria treatment for children rose by 372 per cent. Trainee-nurse Aminata Dumbuya has seen big changes: “Before April 2010 women didn’t come to hospital to give birth because of the costs. Instead they gave birth at home, even though this could be dangerous. If there was a serious emergency hospital staff would do their best to provide care without charging, but this could be difficult. Now it’s much better. The mothers know that care is free and our efforts recognised too.”

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