{"id":4265,"date":"2019-10-04T08:04:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2019-10-11T07:31:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T07:31:20","slug":"comprehensive-care-and-emulation-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2019\/10\/04\/comprehensive-care-and-emulation-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive Care and Emulation in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/kenya-license-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4267\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/kenya-license-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/kenya-license-1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/kenya-license-1-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople ask what exactly I want to accomplish with the Mildred Smith Mission Health Center,\u201d expresses Doug Smith, graduate of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/courses-info\/international-medicine-public-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professional Diploma in International Medicine &amp; Public Health<\/a>. Dr. Smith\u2019s INMED service-learning at Ghana\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/training-sites\/baptist-medical-centre-ghana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baptist Medical Center<\/a> helped nurture his vision for this new health undertaking in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a fair question,\u201d continues Doug Smith. \u201cThere are already some good medical services provided in Kenya by government, private and mission institutions. Still, I still see a need for comprehensive care, focused on unique needs families, including nutrition and dental, and especially among the poor, who so often don\u2019t have resources for anything except life-threatening emergencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut my vision is even larger,\u201d says Dr. Smith. \u201cAfter working at a public hospital here earlier this year \u2013 required for my Kenya medical license &#8211; the obvious need for effective primary care is overwhelming. So, the <a href=\"https:\/\/missionhealthcenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Health Center<\/a> will also serve as a family medicine demonstration clinic to help create a model for others to emulate in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cPeople ask what exactly I want to accomplish with the Mildred Smith Mission Health Center,\u201d expresses Doug Smith, graduate of the Professional Diploma in International Medicine &amp; Public Health. Dr. Smith\u2019s INMED service-learning at Ghana\u2019s Baptist Medical Center helped nurture his vision for this new health undertaking in Kenya. &nbsp; \u201cThat\u2019s a fair question,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inmed-grads-in-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}