Lifesaving Health Care Services to Vulnerable Communities through Static Health-Care Facilities in Hirat Province The 12-month ‘Lifesaving Health Care Services to Vulnerable Communities through Static Health-Care Facilities in Hirat Province’ project will provide integrated primary health-care services including mental health and psychosocial support (MPHSS) and nutrition services in Pashtun Zarghon and Obe districts of Hirat Province. 

A total of 164,500 individuals living in the underserved areas of the targeted 02 districts of Hirat province will benefit from the lifesaving healthcare services including health awareness of the project. A total of 05 Basic Health Centers (BHC) and 06 Sub Health Centers (SHCs) will be established in Obe and Pashtun Zarghon Districts of Hirat province. 

The static healthcare facilities MD will provide OPD services for the general community who require basic primary healthcare, Midwives will provide ANC to the pregnant women who visit the project health service and Counsellors will provide psychosocial patients screening and counselling sessions to those in need. The Vaccinator of the project will provide vaccination services for children such as Meiselas, Polio, Hepatitis, Diphtheria, BCG, and Tetanus (TT) vaccination course to the women. 

The OPD will include the distribution of medicines for common ailments such as flu, sore throat, patient with intestinal, urinary and heart problems, diabetes, etc. And midwives will distribute supplements such as Vit A, Folic Acid, Ferus Sulphate to pregnant women as well as the distribution of medicines in case of need, they will also provide immunization services of various vaccines such as measles, polio etc. to children maintaining cold chain standards during supplies and immunization process and register and report according to the National EPI and HMIS requirement.

The Health Service Points will refer the critical patients to the higher static health service points for better treatment and the PSS teams will also refer any severe illness of PSS cases to higher healthcare facilities when necessary. Awareness about the importance of proper hygiene, prevention from communicable disease including the Covid19 will be provided to the community to improve their wellbeing and safeguard against preventable diseases. IRW has maintained close coordination with all relevant health partners (AADA, IOM, World Vision) including health cluster M/DoPH to avoid any sort of duplication and overlapping in the project area. 

The project is in-line with Strategic Objective SO1 ‘timely, multi-sectoral, lifesaving, equitable and safe assistance is provided to crisis-affected people of all genders and diversities to reduce mortality and morbidity as well as the Health cluster objective 1 in the 2022 HRP improve information and access to humanitarian lifesaving and life-sustaining equitable health services at all levels of care to people in need and most vulnerable. 

IRW will hire static health staff specifically for the project and will directly implement the project. IRW has been present in Hirat province for more than 5 years and has an existing full office set-up and human resource capacity in the province consisting of around 50 staff. IRW has good acceptance among the communities and maintains regular coordination with local authorities, clusters, and other stakeholders in Hirat province. IRW is currently implementing long-term development programmes (07 projects) and humanitarian responses (including Ramadan food, Qurbani meat, and winterization package distribution) in Hirat. Every year, IRW distributes food packages to 3,000 to 4,000 households in Hirat under its seasonal/response projects.