More About The Bairo Pite Clinic

Services provided by the Bairo Pite Clinic include:

1. Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis, treatment and control: There are often more than 1,000 patients registered in the TB program, which includes treatment with medication, improving nutrition, education, and follow-up care. A recovery timeline of eight months an aggressive antibiotic regimen is key. Beds at the clinic are reserved for those TB patients too sick for outpatient treatment. TB medications are provided from the Ministry of Health Global Fund Grant.  The clinic has twenty additional beds for longer-term TB treatment  located at Sister Lourdes’ Tibar facility, which is visited by Bairo Pite staff twice a week. Home visits are also conducted
    
2. Maternity and Infant Care: The clinic has 4 delivery beds and 6 post  natal beds are devoted to maternity services at the Maternity clinic, which averages 60 to 100 deliveries per month. The clinic has enlarged and improved the maternity area of the clinic and continues to improve water quality to reduce the chance of infection for mother and newborn. Due to its maternal care commitment, Bairo Pite clinic has been continuously chosen (since May 2001) to participate in a national midwife training program. (MIDWIVES VIDEO)
    
3. Malaria, Gastroenteritis, and Pneumonia: fourteen in patient beds and 6 isolation beds are used primarily for less common but dangerous diseases, such as malaria, gastroenteritis, and pneumonia.
    
4. Dental services: A Clinic Dentist provides dental care including extractions, basic dental examinations and dental education.
    
5. Vaccinations: Vaccinations for DPT, polio, measles at a minimum (UNICEF) standard are given at the clinic.
    
6. Health outreach: Dr Ida of the Japanese funded Frontline organization participates in frequent and continuous mobile clinics in the remote and often-neglected mountainous areas, and receives patients from all over the country. Dr. Murphy and Team are working to develop a program of health promotion and prevention with links to mountain villages, with the Bairo Pite Clinic serving as the training site for village health workers and Community Birth Attendants. More funding is needed to make these programs realize their full potential as the frontline of the East Timorese healthcare. Clinic staff also assists with local radio and TV programming on health issues as part of their public education efforts.
    
7. Training for East Timorese health care workers: Dr. Murphy has been working with 10 Timorese medical students who began their studies in Indonesia. They are unable to return to their former schools to finish their education. Five students have been able to resume studying overseas, and Dr. Murphy is assisting the others in their attempts to attend Western medical schools. Nursing students come from several local nursing schools. East Timorese also rotate through Bairo Pite clinic as part of their training in practical skills.
    
8. DIAGNOSTIC LAB. The Bairo Pite Clinic has an operating small laboratories in Dili, offering basic hematology, urine, stool, blood group analysis, electrolyte, liver function test, serology, pregnancy, parasitology and some chemistries. 
    
9. A Newly built a Treatment Room was finished in 2015, where minor injuries can be managed and more serious cases stabilised and transferred to the National Hospital, other departments include a Maternity clinic, Tuberculosis ward, a small pharmacy with some but certainly not all needed medications, a kitchen, laundry facilities, supply warehousing, HIV dedicated services, water tank supply system, and a power generator.

Other useful statistics. The BPC manages between 30 and 50% of all TB cases in the country and 50% of the HIV cases in the country.  Increasing numbers of people are choosing to receive their care through BPC. Nationwide in 2013 the TB infection rate per 100,000 people was over 750 people.