Eden Medical Clinic, Rift Valley, Kenya

While serving with Community Baptist Church in 2017, I had the opportunity to help do a Medical Clinic in Zeek, Kenya. It is located about 45 minutes from Eldoret, Kenya. Dr, Wilson Akuora, who serves as a doctor consultant for Haven Recovery Center, had a vision of serving the needs of those that could not afford Health Care. Need Story of how this came to be…whose idea, who gave the facilities, number of patients seen monthly for what kind of conditions. On that day we serve well over 150 patients. Most with Chronic conditions such as High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, HIV/AIDS, Childhood diseases as well as those with Urgent care issues. Before the clinic open the villagers were experiencing no access to Health care which cause many of these patients to pass away way to young. Since the opening of the clinic we have seen a great drop in patients suffering from complication from High Blood pressure which can lead to strokes and paralysis. Blindness from Diabetes being out of control. Seizures are under control with medication so patients are able to attend school. Ongoing issues with Diabetes require an onsite laboratory, which is planned to open Winter 2025.at an initial expenditure of $1000 and $200 monthly to staff an RN on-site.

The current budget for the clinic is $550 which is an average of $5.50 X per patient seen and medications given. However, there are shortages of help for administration work to copy forms into patients charts and a full time RN at an additional expense of $200.00. The need for Solar for power and connecting with a water source has an approximate cost of $7400.00