Samuel Brownback PHCU Blueprints, Akon, Sudan


		Clinic Blueprints

		Front Elevation of the Samuel Brownback Primary Health Care Unit
		JumpStart Sudan worked with Robert Aura Otengo, the architect who designed the clinic. Robert oversaw the construction of the primary health care unit which the leaders of Akon decided to name after Senator Samuel Brownback, a friend of the southern Sudanese. Of utilizing local labor in Akon for the clinic construction, Robert writes: "The young people are in the bottom of my heart. These are the people who have had no opportunity to go to school due to the war. I will be very much privileged to impart skills on the young people." The people of Akon made many bricks for the clinic and some helped with the construction of the building under the supervision of Otengo and the contractor. The new primary health care unit will include the proper facilities for storage of medicines and basic lab equipment so the doctor(s) can make diagnoses on more than just symptoms--the method which has been relied on for years. Other health professionals have indicated they will return to Akon when there is a place to work. The clinic will also provide a base for other relief agencies providing immunizations, etc. The open-air education space will be available for a variety of types of education, teacher and health care worker training, general health and hygiene training, Bible training, adult literacy, etc. depending on what programs the community leaders deem most valuable to Akon at the time. JumpStart Sudan plans to maintain a small desk in the PHCU with Internet capability so that a JSS representative there in Akon and the JSS Board in the U.S. will be able to communicate with each other in a direct and timely fashion regarding the community's needs.
	Clinic Elevation Clinic Foundation Clinic Cross-section

The ruins of the Akon Clinic