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Home    Sitemap    Help    Media Library    Find a Partner   Select a Partner 1st Framework Afrikan Quest Albion Primary School Alfred Salter PS Archbishop Michael Ramsey Arts & Media Project Associacao Imagem Comunitaria Aylwin Girls Sch Bellenden Residents' Group Bethlehem Castle Arts Charles Edward Brooke Girls School Charterhouse Community TV Trust Cooltan Arts Corsica Arts Club E.Dulwich Community Cntr English Martyrs RC School FAIR STREET Farassa Gloucester Primary Sch Goodrich Primary Sch Goose Green Primary Sch ICE - Sydney InSpire Kickstart YIP Langbourne Primary Sch Lilian Baylis Technology School Livesey Museum Mothers Against Guns NEON Peckham Voluntary Sector Forum Pioneer African Caribbean Over 50s Group Rockingham Somali Support Group se5forum for Camberwell Sierra Leone Community Forum SL & Maudsley NHS Trust Southwark College Southwark Hindu Centre SPAG Southwark Pensioners Cntr Refugee Artists Network SSEMTA Southwark YP Magazine Spirit Arts Academy Stepforward Storymakers Syndicate Time And Talents Tribute Trust Uni4U Volunteer Centre Southwark Willowbank PRU Yangon YMCA Young Parents Project Youth Animation Media CORNELIUS CLINIC ‘to provide Health Education and Health Care for the poor and especially vulnerable child’ 13 Theingyee Rd, Kyeemyindine Township,Yangon Tel: 95 1 536236 Email: tcmang_family@myanmar.com.mm Founder and Director: Dr Thang Cin Mang, MB, BS, DCH Consultant Paediatrician ?subject=From Website'>1 would pay for treatments to keep a sickly child alive for a week.. The Cornelius Clinic focuses on Low Priced Medical Health Services, which Dr Thang runs from rooms adjacent to his family home in north Yangon. Up to 30 children (age under 5) attend daily, most being brought by their mothers from the village of Setkone on the West Bank of the Yangon River. Poverty prevails - most villagers are manual labourers, earning less than 500 Kyatts (50 cents) per day, so even the boatman’s fee to cross the river to attend the clinic, deters many. The Medical Problems Dr Thang faces mainly arise from vulnerable children living in a poor health environment with primitive sanitation systems including stagnant and polluted water. Hence, children are susceptible to: - Gastro enteritis and diarrhea , respiratory diseases and TB, scabies and skin diseases, occasional dengue fever, some malnourishment The Treatments are fairly basic: antibiotics, vitamin pills, boiled water with salt tablets and sugar, health education and personal hygiene material. Some Financial Support comes from Dr Thang’s family and medical supplies from Myanmar Christian Council and occasional other well-wishers. Mothers attending the Clinic are asked to contribute up to 1000 Kyatts (?subject=From Website'>1) and while all are encouraged to contribute something, the neediest cannot. The Future - an Outreach Service to the Children of Setkone, Alatchaung, Setkyee, Baloke-nyunt and Ayeywar villages Dr Thang has produced an outline Project Plan which would provide an Outreach Health Care Service for needy Children, targeting 5 poor Villages (totalling an under age-12 population of 9,000). These villages have no access to medical or health facilities, so urgent and serious cases have to cross the Yangon River to access Government Medical Hospitals or private clinics, but few can afford the ferry transport. Having registered the Cornelius Clinic as a Charity, the Aim of the Project would be to provide the targeted child population with Immunisation and Nutrition Support, free Mobile Medical Check-ups and Treatments, and Referral Expenses support for Serious Cases. The Project could be phased in, building up to a budget cost of some ?subject=From Website'>20,000 pa. Dr. Thang is a practising Christian originally from the Chin Hills, but now a retired paediatrician. He started the Cornelius Clinic (named after the first Roman soldier to be converted to Christianity) in 2003. The Community being served by the Cornelius Clinic is not far from Huaing Tha Yar (the YMCA Village). If you are interested in supporting the Clinic, please contact Russell Cleaver on jrc@cleaver.freeserve.co.uk or Dr Thang directly. (1st version, February 2006)