Health Services Support

Improving Local Health Services

Efficient, well-organised and well-supported health services can be lifesaving and life-changing. About 4.8 million children under 5 and nearly 300,000 pregnant women and new mothers die each year from causes that could be prevented by access to well-equipped and well-trained healthcare professionals.

International Medical Corps helps local health authorities provide primary and secondary healthcare services, including strengthening referral services from rural communities and clinics to large regional and national-level hospitals. We work hand-in-hand with national governments and local community leaders to ensure that basic healthcare is available and affordable for all people—whether they are residents of remote villages or large urban centres, and whether they are internally displaced people, asylum seekers, migrants or refugees.

Training and education are central to our support of health services. We train and mentor health-service providers, managers and community representatives, enabling them to better deliver, manage and monitor their local health services.

We also help rehabilitate health facilities and supply them with essential drugs and medical supplies. Where necessary, we recruit trained medical professionals to fill gaps in the health service system. And International Medical Corps works with local health authorities to advocate for the benefits of improving health services.