A story of hope and capacity building done right
Nursing Triage: In February 2018, a young child died whilst waiting to see a doctor in one of Dili’s Community Health Centres (CHCs) – a death that may never have happened if his illness was recognised and treated earlier. Maluk Timor’s government partners at Dili...
Midwifery team building collaborative connections
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING The Maluk Timor midwifery team has been focused on building a relationship with the midwives at one of the busiest maternity Units in Dili. The midwifery team attend the clinic 2.5 days a week and provide clinical support. The team have...
Nursing Triage systems save lives
We want the Timorese community to value and respect their local health centres. That respect will be based on more than the quality of the care provided but also upon the patient’s experience of how they were treated. There’s an old expression that captures this well:...
The value of good nursing care in TL
Any of us who have ever been sick or hospitalised know the value of a great nurse. Doctors breeze in and out but it is the nurses who so often make the difference. We know that the quality of the patient experience matters almost as much as the clinical care: the...
Australian Aid Friendship Grant awarded to Maluk
Maluk Timor is successful in its application in the inaugural round of Australian Aid: Friendship Grants – the Nursing Triage Program to be expanded. On 30 November 2018 the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, announced the successful...
Triage Triumph – Go the NURSES
Triage Triumph Most of us take it for granted that when we arrive at an Emergency Department we will be interviewed by a nurse who makes an assessment of how urgent our condition might be. This is known as triage: determining which patients need to be seen in what...
Support Maluk Timor in helping Timor-Leste
Welcome to our Christmas newsletter. The people of East Timor are fortunate that you have chosen to continue to support Maluk Timor in its endevour to improve the health of its most marginalized. Unless you’re a regular Facebook follower, you probably have relatively...
Our goal: 95% vaccination for 0-5 year olds
Part of working as a team means you sometimes have to either pause your program or run dual streams to help our Ministry of Health (MOH) partners achieve their goals. Maluk nursing and midwifery teams join with the MOH in this fortnight’s immunisation campaign. We are...