By Nkeiruka Ugo | Project Leader
Health For All Naija (HFA Naija) is keeping its promise to prevent, and or forestall disease complications of Diabetes and Hypertension through our Monthly clinics. We have averaged 85 participants visit in the interval since our last report. Thankfully the communities we serve have not recorded any Covid-19 cases. During the two months of April and May, we observed Social Distancing as we continued to provide medicatiins for disease maintenance.
Uncontrolled Hypertension and Diabetes, either alone or together are major risk factors for Stroke and Renal failure. Other cardiovascular and peripheral vascular diseases are also attributable to Hypertension and Diabetes. Unlike most other countries, Nigeria has no evident resources or facilities to manage such complications. In part, due to the absence of Care, the community often defaults to associating such complications to the supernatural, and finger pointing about who might be responsible.
HFA continues to provide essential care aimed at controlling and preventing complications of Hypertension and Diabetes. Our monthly clinic provides blood pressure and blood sugar screening, and monthly supplies of medications for maintenance treatment of Hypertension and Diabetes. Maintenance is key in Chronic disease care, and our participants are proof that maintenance saves lives.
Even as the world is focused on the Covid-19 pandemic, Chronic diseases continue to affect people just the same. Please support our efforts to continue the service we provide. Please donate. Any amount helps us in some way to continue our work. Please consider becoming a monthly donor.
We are now in the second half of the year, please keep us in mind and add us to your list for Giving this year. Please share our cause and help us continue this lifesaving work.
THANK YOU!
Sincerely,
Nkeiruka Ugo, Project Leader.
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