Health Centers General Information

On the matter of medical ethics as per the Ministry Of Health, a non medical professional cannot do the following:
• Observe individual treatment
• Observe delivery
• Go to the operating room
• Give injection
• Learn how to give injection
• Draw blood from patients and any other procedures which affect the human body

They can do the following:

• Weigh women and children’s body weight
• Record the MCH cards
• Keep immunization record
• Keeping general cleanliness in the clinic / ward
• Prepare working materials e.g. slides, cotton wool for sterilization; wash the laboratory equipment, etc.
• Help issue outpatient cards
• Help in pharmacy by making envelopes for tablets
• Make beds and any other manual activities which do not involve human health.

Volunteers who are medical professionals, residents or medical students in their last year of medical school will be allowed to do all above under supervision. In all government hospitals Medical Professional Volunteers must provide supporting professional documents.

A Medical Professional Volunteer will need a mentor for translation and guidance throughout his / her stay due to the language barrier.

All medical volunteers who would work in a hospital need to bring with him/her a professional uniform e.g. a white jacket and decent clothes.