My name is David Taurus. I come from Kipkarenriver in Kenya, where the MIT students came to the ELI clinic. We were so privileged to have brilliant people full of passion to address issues in society. I was so thrilled to sit down and go around with them to hear them ask questions to the people in the community. At the end of their research I was grateful that they [sat down with us] to make us understand their research.
There are 6 things we have already implemented and we are seeing a tremendous production in our clinic. By the time the MIT team was here, the clinic was receiving income of about $300/month. Now we’re about $1,200/month, which shows that how they trained us in business thinking and quality service delivery. All those areas we are really trying to address. In administration, in the way they are training the head workers in customer relations, in advertisements, serving the clients at the right time. We say “5 minutes in our clinic and someone with come to talk to you, or to tell you exactly the time you will be served.”
Another thing that I was so grateful was that they sat with us in the village to talk and to understand all they wrote in their research [Editor’s note: David is talking about the team’s recommendations]. Currently through their research we have clean water, we have [for the first time] dental services in our clinic, we have maternal-child health, we have an eye clinic, and right now we are looking to move from a dispensary to a health center. Because people now are coming to ask for more services, and we have to move to the next level to be able to offer more services.
I am grateful to the university for sending more students. And I am grateful personally to every student that came to spend time with us. We say Bravo! and welcome you again. We invite you visit us and see the impact you have created in our society. We are looking forward for long term partnership for MIT. We are grateful as we look forward to other MIT groups, or alumni or a simple project that we can work together between MIT University and our clinic in the future. Welcome to our village and have a great day.