Hepto: Advancing Healthcare in East Africa

1. Healthcare Extension Promotion and Training Organization “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”

2. Purpose • Hepto was created to advance modern healthcare by establishing permanent infrastructure and continuing medical training and education in traditionally underrepresented communities throughout East Africa.

3. Vision • We envision a world in which donors, volunteers, healthcare providers, and patients have overcome all barriers to ensure universal access to modern medicine and modern medical best practices. • We stand for promoting, enhancing and uplifting the knowledge of healthcare workers and general public in underdeveloped countries by providing core-training and essential education in healthcare.

4. We Empower, Enliven, and Enrich. • Empowerment is at the core of our mission. We know that change comes not only from saving lives, but from empowering those in need to save themselves. • Hope. It is a defining human trait. We are dedicated to keeping hope alive by invigorating weak economies with new opportunity for trade and service. • If infrastructure is the road to a brighter future, training and education are the vehicle on the path. Using today's tools to their potential we will bring knowledge and enrichment to those who need it most.

5. Geographical Area • We are planning to expand our vision and services to all East-African Nations such as; Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Kenya, Djibouti • Now, we funneled our service to Ethiopia initially.

6. Services • Building permanent healthcare and public health infrastructure; • Economic development to ensure poverty does not persist as a barrier to adequate care and hygiene. • Public health, mental health, surgical perioperative services, gynecological, general practitioner and environmental care.

7. Training • In order to effect permanent change, we will educate on three levels: Professional, paraprofessional, and public. • Professional Education: There is a shortage of doctors and other experts in all fields of medicine throughout Africa. As a result, millions suffer and die of illness and injury unnecessarily. • We will partner with healthcare professionals worldwide to provide care and treatment education to aspiring caretakers native to the areas we serve.

8. Training • Midlevel of Healthcare professional: Much of the community we will serve can be treated by midlevel-healthcare providers such as nurses, midwives, counselors, and public health workers. • We will educate native members of the communities we serve and pair them with newly trained doctors to promote better access to healthcare throughout underprivileged communities.

9. Training • General public: Educating the public on proper hygiene and personal care practices is vital to the wellbeing of these communities. • Proper food and water preparation, best practices of sanitation, and chronic illness maintenance, such as diabetes, and asthma, is essential.

10. Mental Health Awareness • Mental health conditions in Africa are deteriorating at a shocking rate. Governments have abandoned, aid communities forgotten, and societies neglected and abused many of those suffering. • Places there is a war, drought, famine is the most vulnerable that suffer the utmost. Some have suffered trauma leading to illness. Others were born with mental disability.

11. Mental Health Awareness • In countries where infrastructure has collapsed and mental health professionals have fled, treatment is often the same – a life in chains. • HEPTO gives a great concern about the mental health, by training mental health workers, informing the administration the importance of mental patient care and strengthening public outreach.

12. InfrastructureClinics • Clinics: Permanent clinics are few and face numerous problems. Many are being founded by individuals with little or no medical education, and their patients suffer as a result of malpractice, negligence, and dishonesty. • Most have inadequate tools, do not practice record keeping or sterilization best practices, and cause significant harm to their patients. • Legitimate clinics are too few, have inadequate access to modern tools, and are often located in the cities, far from those who need them most.

13. Infrastructure Clinics

14. InfrastructurePublic Health

15. Infrastructure Public Health • We will partner with community leaders to establish and maintain a preventative standard of public and personal hygiene. • We will partner with manufacturers to provide water purification to even the most remote communities throughout East Africa. • From current water source • To clean drinkable water

16. Utilities • Utilities: Communities throughout the nations of East Africa face recurring famine as a result of drought – a common and predictable problem. • On the other hand, floods devastate impoverished communities, washing away homes, farms and spreading disease. The outcomes of these disasters could be controlled with permanent, predictive utilities infrastructure. • We will partner with local governments, universities, and development organizations such as construction and engineering to lay down a framework for providing fresh, clean water.

17. Accreditation and Licensing • Malpractice is rampant throughout Africa due to inadequate licensing and education standards. • HEPTO will work with local governments and academic institutions to standardize a licensing procedure for health care professionals and healthcare facilities.

18. Competitive • There are many organizations worldwide that provide relief for one or more of the issues addressed by The HEPTO. • As we attempt to build credibility and solicit donations, our actions will be compared to these organizations during the decision-making process.

19. Crisis • Crisis relief organizations such as Catholic Charities, and American Red Cross seek to provide basic relief from acute disaster, but do not account for disaster prevention. • The result of their efforts is temporary and creates a cycle of dependence as recipients of their generosity are relieved of immediate suffering, but not empowered to prevent or lessen future disaster. • These organizations are able to capitalize on reputation and the urgency of emergency relief to cull donations from large and small donors.

20. Medical • Medical intervention organizations such as Doctors Without Borders seek to preserve lives in areas where access to health care is limited by poverty, natural or man-made disaster, and war. • Their intervention is reactive and non-permanent.

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24. Conclusion • HEPTO seeks to succeed where other aid-based medical organizations have failed by empowering communities to provide health care for themselves. But we can’t do that without you. • Your commitment to this program is supreme to our success. With your support, HEPTO will go on to preserve and, more importantly, to enrich the lives of millions. • Thank you