Project Muso broke ground this month, with a construction project to more than double the capacity of the Yirimadjo Health Center, as part of the Community Based Malaria Prevention and Treatment Program.  The construction will renovate existing infrastructure and build a new clinical center building, creating two six-bed patient rooms, two consultation rooms, a counseling and testing room, a pharmacy and stock room, and a wound dressing room.  Renovations will create an extended maternity ward, a new malaria diagnostics laboratory, and an administrative office. The Yirimadjo Health Center currently has only 5 closely packed beds to provide care for a population of more than 26,000. During the rainy season, when malaria transmission peaks, the number of patients seeking treatment for severe malaria surpasses the five available beds to the point that Health Center staff must provide IV treatment to patients lying on the ground outside in a makeshift shack.  As the Solidarity Fund begins providing free care for the poor at the Yirimadjo Health Center, and as Community Health Workers begin actively seeking out patients in the community, Project Muso anticipates that the number of patients being treated at the health center will rise.  Constructing a new clinical center building is thus an essential element of the Community-Based Malaria Program.