Africa School of Missions
"Equipping Christ followers to take the Gospel to the Nations"
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ASM Health Clinics
The ASM Mobile Clinic
The ASM Mobile Clinic has rendered a free weekly Primary Health Care service to the poor in the surrounding area since 1990 and for the past 15 years visits a farming area near Hazyview. The people reached are farm labourers and their dependants.
The farms are situated approximately 25 km from the nearest public health clinic.
The Mobile Clinic therefore renders an essential weekly health service close to where these people live and work.
Before the Mobile Clinic visited there, many of the people had to wait for their pay at the end of the month before they were able to afford the taxi fare to seek medical help in Hazyview.
Approximately 30 - 40 consultations are done each Wednesday.
In May 2002 ASM built a clinic on the campus that serves both
the local people who live in close proximity to ASM and the different missionary organizations in the area.
However, word has spread about the excellent standard of care that patients receive at the ASM Clinic and now some patients come from as far away as a 100km or more to attend the ASM Clinic.
Often the local people use the ASM Clinic as a specialist clinic, coming with complicated or advanced medical conditions that were not picked up, or incorrectly diagnosed or managed elsewhere.
The Mobile Clinic operates most Wednesdays and the Stationary Clinic on the other weekdays. The Stationary Clinic also serves as the hub from where the Mobile Clinic and ASM Nursing School are run from. Each year the ASM Clinics do approximately 3800 consultations.
In both clinics the patients respond positively to the respect, love and care with which the team treat them, and to the excellent medical care that they receive. This gives us many opportunities to pray with people and share more about the love of Jesus.
Over the past number of years there has been an amazing move of the spirit of God on the farm and in the fixed clinic, with a number of people making commitments to accept Jesus as their Saviour.
The PRIMARY HEALTH CLINIC ACTIVITIES includes the following:
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Acute and chronic medical care
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Specialized health care for young children (we refer for ARVs)
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Women’s health care (we refer for ARVs & pap smears)
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Basic health screening
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Chronic wound care
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Active HIV counselling and testing
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HIV staging and medical care for early infections (before ARVs)
Lulu Farm Feeding Program:
At Lulu Farm babies and toddlers of the labourers are left in a care centre from 6 am to 5 pm each day while their parents are working on the farm. With the help of individuals, churches and Woolworths the Mobile Clinic is able to provide these children with two warm meals a day. An additional snack or meal is provided in the form of a “lunchbox” by the parents. This program has greatly reduced the incidence of malnutrition in these little ones.
