Medical Outreach Program & Women's Health

Katalyst is dedicated to removing barriers that impede access to healthcare services.

Medical Outreach Program

The Katalyst Medical Outreach Program works in partnership with Nabouwalu Hospital, located in the Bua Province, Vanua Levu, Fiji to provide medical clinics conducted by a team of professional experts on a quarterly basis. Our joint aim is to ensure that communities located in remote regions of Vanua Levu have access to basic medical needs, health education and a complete medical check each year.

Katalyst supports all the medical and administration staff required to make the program a success, and generous donors from medical institutions kindly donate the medical consumables that are needed.

The medical outreach clinic covers:

• Non-communicable diseases,
• Immunisations,
• Family planning,
• Post-natal,
• Cervical screening
• Referrals,
• Counselling,
• Domestic and sexual violence,
• Women and children’s rights, and
• Dental checks.

Members of the community can choose from the listed available services.

In addition to providing our Medical Outreach program which delivers both health education and services, we work together with The Medical Pantry and other trusted donors within the health industry including both public and private hospitals, universities and research bodies to gain access to hospital supplies, medical equipment and other consumables. 

Support is urgently needed for many hospitals and health centres across Fiji. To join us in helping these vulnerable communities with medical supplies, please contact liz.zamrob@kookai.com.

Women’s Health

Katalyst recognise the importance of creating much needed awareness surrounding women’s health issues, which is why in 2021 we launched a specific Women’s Health Initiative. As part of this program, we partnered with Modibodi who generously donated 1000 pairs of re-usable leak-proof period underwear to women in need. Katalyst and Modibodi together are committed to helping provide access to menstrual products, empowering women and helping to put an end to period poverty which is a global health issue.

In the past, adolescent girls were provided with ‘Days for Girls’ kits, a feminine hygiene kit containing 2 shields, 8 liners, a washcloth, a bar of soap, and a pair of underwear. This outreach program also gifted women bras and body lotions, thanks to Uplift New Zealand (MSP partner supplier of quality undergarments). We are now in need of commercial suppliers to help us with much needed donations for products for these kits. Your generous donations will help these young women access much need sanitary products.

Katalyst also aspire to shine a light on prevention, by providing educational videos on breast checks and screening, cervical checks and ovarian cancer symptoms.