Restore sight to 200 villagers in rural Nigeria.

Restore sight to 200 villagers in rural Nigeria – Project ID 44482

Hello everyone and hope you are keeping well during these difficult times.

We are pleased to inform you that our next Free Medical Outreach is on 2^nd & 3^rd June 2023. This will involve providing free primary medical consultations and eye screening and some medications including for blood pressure, diabetes, malaria, arthritis, and eye drops and ointments.

People identified with eye problems during outreach who require specialist investigations, will be supported to do so and those with cataracts provided with free surgical operations.

We are currently busy ensuring that we will have the clinical and non-clinical volunteers, and all the relevant resources required for the outreach to be a success. We look forward to sharing this with you in our next report in July 2023.  

Next month April 2023, we will mark the one-year anniversary of our monthly Medication Maintenance Programme. The programme is highly valued, providing the poorest individuals in communities with free regular blood pressure checks and medication supplies, and some specialist investigations where required. We plan to include diabetes monitoring this year.

We continue to provide more small interest free loans to assist individuals with small scale trading and subsistence farming.

Once again, thank you so much for your continued support in improving the health and wellbeing of poor communities in rural South east Nigeria.

Take care and keep safe.

Hello everyone and hope you are enjoying the summer, staying safe and keeping cool.

Thank you for your continued support for our project to Restore sight to 200 villagers in South Eastern Nigeria, whichprovides much needed primary and specialist eye, and primary medical care services.

We are pleased to inform you that the nine individuals who received cataract operations in January 2022 are all doing very well, and their eyes are regularly being monitored.

We have started planning for the next eye screening outreach and cataract operations in December 2022/January 2023 and we will provide an update in our next report.

Our Medication Maintenance Programme is going well at our monthly clinics, during which we monitor the blood pressure and provide them with medication. We also facilitate and fund specialist investigations (e.g., chest x-rays and echocardiograms) and treatments. We hope to include blood sugar monitoring and issuing medications to control diabetes by the end of the year.

Economic hardship is increasing in Nigeria, with the poorest in communities becoming poorer. We continue to provide small interest free loans to the poorest families, to assist them with petty trading and subsistence farming.

Thank you so much for your continued support and wish you all well.

Restore sight to 200 villagers in rural Nigeria – Project ID 44482

Hello everyone and thank you for your continued support for our project to Restore sight to 200 villagers in South Eastern Nigeria, which provides much needed general and specialist eye care services.

We are both excited and delighted to announce that we carried out our first cataract operations last January. As we said in our November 2021 report, we carried out field eye screening of 327 people on the 10th & 11th September 2021, out of which 26 were identified as requiring specialist investigations. Nine (1 in both eyes) went to have cataract operations on 8th January 2022. The individual who was operated on both eyes is an 80 year old man who has been blind for six years – see photo with his wife and one of the project directors three days after operation bottom right.

We have also started our Medication Maintenance Programme, working with local health professionals. The aim is to enable the poorest individuals to receive regular supplies of medications (for high blood pressure for now) to help them maintain some level of control of the condition.

We provided more small interest free loans to the poorest families, to assist them with petty trading and subsistence farming to feed their families.

We are already planning for the next cataract operations in Dec 2022/Jan 2023 and look forward to sharing the good news with you.

Thank you so much for your continued support and wish you well. 

We hope you are keeping well and safe as the Covid-19 pandemic is not over, and you are doing all you can to reduce the impact on you, everyone around you and the wider society.

Thank you for your continued support for our project to Restore sight to 200 villagers in South Eastern Nigeria, whichprovides much needed general and specialist eye care services.

We are pleased to inform you that we have restarted our outreach work. As we said in our last report in July, we carried out field eye screening of 327 people on the 10^th & 11^th September 2021. Of the 327 people examined, we identified 26 people requiring specialist investigations and about half will go on to have cataract operation by the end of the year.

We will also start our Medication Maintenance Programme in January 2022, working with local professionals. The aim is to enable the poorest individuals to receive regular supplies of medications (mainly for high blood pressure and diabetes) to help them maintain some level of control of these conditions.

We are also continuing to provide small interest free loans to the poorest in communities who have been disproportionally affected by the pandemic, assisting them with petty trading and subsistence farming to feed their families.

We thank you so much for your continued support.

Links:

• http://www.bavof.org

• Eye Screening Event 10th & 11th September 2021 (DOCX)