By QUEEN OBASI | PRESIDENT
ACHI'S annual maintenance program has help to reduce the number of death in the rural areas of Nigeria resulting from Diabetes and Hypertension. Individuals identified during annual outreaches with diabetes and hypertension are being followed year round making medications and monitoring available to them at no cost. People are living longer with these chronic diseases because of the cares they are receiving. We are currently collecting medications to be sent to Nigeria for the diabetics and the hypertensive before our next medical mission which will be in October. We measure the outcome of the program from the number of the individuals who are still living with chronic diseases, reduction in number of individual with complications and increase in the number of people being followed after each program which has doubled. The increase has also brought some financial difficulties to the organization, we need more help to be able to sustain these people.
The reource center is where the maintenance program takes place at Amakohia village and houses most of our testing supplies and dressing supplies. We still help to bring it to a standard for us to be able to run a clinic and reach more individuals daily.
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