Missions

Renovation

When AMI teams arrive on the field, they generally find hospitals, dispensaries and health stations which cannot bring adequate health service to the populations. The war, corruption, economic instability, absence of trained staff, shortage of drugs paralyse the health system. The first stage of AMI intervention consists to rehabilitate and equip the medical structures. As far as possible, we use materials available where we are located in order to facilitate the maintenance of the structures by the local teams and the populations. consult this article only
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Training

Another condition to the perpetuation of the programs: medical staff training.

AMI proposes adapted sessions to supplement studies of university level or to enable a teacher to give advices and simple health care to the members of his/her community. The teaching method, the didactic material and the used language are as many elements which answer a particular profile of student. With the concern of respecting the customs and local habits, when this does not harm the health nor the dignity of the patients.

The «medics»: the basic in 18 months

AMI always regarded training as a privileged mean of humanitarian intervention. In 1985, it systematizes the approach in Central Asia. Each year, many students arrive from the most moved back areas of Afghanistan to receive a 18 months training. At the end of the training, the "medics" can deal with 90% of the most frequently met diseases in their area. With their diploma, the students go back to their village, they carry drugs, medication and the material necessary to open a small dispensary. Today, the training of health agents continues in other forms on a great part of the Afghan territory.

The "medics" experiment puts forward the importance to create a remotely continuing training magazine. The magazine makes it possible to keep contact with the trained staff and to ensure the maintenance level of their knowledge. Magazines of this type were create on our Afghan, Burmese and Kampuchean missions.

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“Let’s help them to cope without us”

“Let’s help them to cope without us”

The objective of AMI teams is to contribute to the medical autonomisation of the populations. This autonomisation requires certain conditions, they often are difficult and long to join together:

- The local health staff works in adapted health structures and exempts quality care.

- The community takes part, as much as possible, in the financing of the system.

- The political and military context is sufficiently stable.

- The authorities of the country lay down a health policy and resolve adapted means for its setting.

We can also support the community in the creation of generating activities of incomes or Community funds. These resources then make it possible to finance a part of the operation costs of the health system (wages of the staff, maintenance of buildings, renewal of stocks of drugs and medical material).

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