Mortality statistics for the students siblings

There are only 2 weeks left in the medical training program. We are now in the process of making a list of exactly what we need as far as medications and additional equipment for the Barefoot Dr students. Since we had some donated supplies from USA and Canada it has been a little difficult to know what we have and what we do not have. For things we do not have we are getting prices so everyone knows what the specific needs are and how much individual items will cost. We are very short on funds for medications right now but many have already asked how they can help. Once the list is finalized people can donate for general fund and know exactly how much medicine or cures that will buy. For example, we figured out this morning that one course of penicillin, to cure say pneumonia, costs ~$1.37 USD.

This week we also collect some more date on death rates of children in the students' families. We found out some very interesting and sad facts. Of the students' brothers and sisters there were 29 deaths as children out of a total of 202 children (ya I know, big families). Adult deaths of their siblings was 34. Most of these deaths in both categories were preventable with simple medications that any of the Barefoot Doctors will have. 8 of the 9 deaths in the 1yr to 5yrs category were preventable if a Barefoot Doctor with their usual medications had been present. Here is a copy of the data with more details. Sorry for the messy presentation. The blog would not let me put in a spread sheet or chart. Hopefully you can still make sense of the information.

Student's Parent
2/10/10
Infant Mortality, Child Mortality, Overall Mortality,
99, 144, 312,

Student Number, Liveborn, Deaths 0-1 yr, Deaths 1-5 yrs, 5+, Cause of death
1- 9, 1, 0, 1, newborn, tetanus @ 15yrs old
2- 9, 2, 0, 2, unknown age, unknown cause
3- 6, 0, 0, 0,
4- 1, 0, 0, 0,
5- 10, 0, 1, 2, malaria & bomb & measles
6- 7, 0, 1, 0, unknown 15 yrs typhoid
7- 6, 0, 1, 0, fever
8- 9, 1, 0, 0, fever
9- 10, 0, 0, 5, unknown
10- 10, 0, 0, 2, malaria typhoid
11- 7, 0, 0, 2, gastric ulcer, stomach problem
12- 8, 2, 0, 0, unknown
13- 3, 0, 0, 0,
14- 15, 5, 0, 2, unknown
15- 4, 0, 0, 1, soldiers beat to death
16- 8, 0, 1, 3, 2 malaria, 1 alcoholic
17- 5, 1, 0, 0, post delivery
18- 10, 2, 0, 1, malaria and unknown infant
19- 6, 1, 0, 3, unknown, cancer, malnutrition, jaundice
20- 3, 0, 0, 2, HIV, cirrhosis alcoholic
21- 10, 0, 0, 5, unknown
22- 6, 1, 0, 0, premature
23- 4, 0, 1, 0, fell into well
24- 1, 0, 0, 0,
25- 8, 1, 2, 1, unknown, tetanus, unknown, typhoid
26- 8, 1, 1, 1, unknown, diarrhea with blood, drowned
Traslator 1- 8, 1, 1, 1, unknown, malaria, typhoid
Translator 2- 11, 1, 0, 0, high fever & convulsion
Total: 202, 20, 9, 34,