
Health Care Volunteer Opportunities in Kenya
Volunteers interested in health care have the option to spend time at many clinics in the local Gede, Kenya area. The main clinic that we send most volunteers is the Gede Health Center.
Volunteer opportunities include:
HIV/Aids Outreach
Going out with a team into the community, testing individual’s blood for HIV
Assisting in deliveries
Comforting mothers in labour, hands on experience with childbirth and assessing baby once born (weight, administering HIV medication if needed, cleaning up and suctioning if needed)
Assessing pregnant mothers
Taking blood pressures, weighing, assessing fetal heart beats, and administering malaria medication
Family planning clinics
Administering birth control injections
Outpatient clinic
Assist in administering medications, wound care, assessments
Pharmacy
Count and bag medications (usually for malaria, or antibiotics)
Filing
Organize the folders for the HIV/AIDs clinic by putting the files in order by number in filing cabinets