Public health education

St RCHF has for many years worked voluntary in collaboration with the Iasi public health department and has produced its own health educational materials including hand outs and posters and educates in rural areas on many subjects that include not only Tuberculosis but also pneumonia, liver disease, AIDS/HIV, the importance of basic hygiene both in the home, school and workplace, the importance of drinking clean water and to boil all water from rural water wells each time when to be used at home, the importance of cleaning small wounds and how treat minor burns. To give an example, a couple of years ago we called on a man we know as help him with aid on occasion and found him sat in his garden with a face like a balloon. Asking what had happened and was told the fire had blown in his face and he had placed cooking oil on his face as someone told him that was what to do. We rushed him to hospital, but first doused his face in cold water from a pipe in the garden. Here shows the basic lack of health education that could easily cost a life.