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Easily treatable illness can prevent low-income families from working, and high healthcare costs often force families to sell their assets, creating a cycle of poor health and poverty. Deki's MUSA healthcare for all programme ends this cycle by offering affordable healthcare for all.
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Situation
In Togo, West Africa healthcare costs are high and only 8% of the population can afford healthcare protection cover. Low-income families are frightened of falling ill, as they have no access to even basic treatment. Families often delay treatment or self-medicate with unlicensed medicine brought from street vendors which can make illnesses worse. Families are forced deeper into poverty when they are unable to work, or when they sell their income generating assets.
Solution
Working with local partners and the government, Deki's ‘Healthcare for All’ programme focuses on providing positive healthcare solutions in rural communities. We build village healthcare hubs with vital supplies and medicines so that illness and injuries can be treated within hard to reach, rural villages. We provide training in how to prevent illness and injuries, and we provide access to a not-for-profit healthcare mutual. This wholistic approach tackles healthcare needs head on.
