Project Report
| Jun 19, 2023
SUPPORT FOR NIGERIANS LIVING WITH CKD
By Ogochukwu Okoye | President/Project Lead
St Linus renal care initiative (SLRCI) has remained committed to supporting persons living with CKD, hypertension and diabetes in Nigeria.
The last six months has been dissappionting as we hardly met the needs of Nigerians reaching out for support for dialysis and kidney transplant. However, the SLRCI team has continued to provide free weekly clinic consultations, subsidised medicines and blood pressure monitorng devices to patients who reach out to us. We also disseminate useful CKD prevention and management education on our social media platforms.
We cannot overemphasize the needs of CKD patients in Nigeria, the situation is devastating especially for those with kidney failure requiring dialysis or kidney transplant. St Linus continues to advocate for these persons and explores opportunities to raise funds for their care.
We rely on our donors to enable us help these patients meaningfully.
SLRCI is passionate to change to narrative but we need your support.
Thank you to all our donors who have continued to support us, please do not relent.
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Feb 16, 2023
Supporting Nigerians with CKD: Journey so far
By Ogochukwu Okoye | Founder
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St Linus Renal Care Initiative has continued to provide support for patients with CKD and those at risk. Our current project which is aimed at providing essential medicines for patients with CKD has continued.
We have given out a wide range of antihypertensives and antidiabetics to CKD patients as well as those living with hypertension and diabetes in our communities. In addition, we provide free medical consultations and subsidised basic tests at our Walk-in Clinic. We continue to equip patients with blood pressure monitors to encourage self management.
We are proud of what we have achieved with your help, but the reality is our organisation is not able to service a majority of Nigerians who reach out to us for help. We have stuck with this project because it is relatively manageable compared to the huge resources required to support patients who need haemodialysis services or kidney transplantation. However, it breaks our heart that less than 1 out of 10 Nigerians with CKD can sustain haemodialysis or get kidney transplant.
St Linus Renal Care Initiative remains focused on her goals, but we need your sustained support to make a difference.
We are grateful to our donors for keeping us afloat and we will certainly accomplish more in the future together!
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Sep 19, 2022
Support for CKD patients in Nigeria
By Ogochukwu Okoye | Founder
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The burden of diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease in Nigeria overwhelms the available health resources. Majority of individuals living with these diseases cannot afford regular medicines while the cost of dialysis is enormous.
In most Nigerians, Chronic kidney disease runs a more severe course with poor outcomes and this is due to complications arising from kidney disease, hypertension and heart disease. Effective management of hypertension and diabetes are key to prolonging the lives of patients with CKD.
Therefore, we have continued our campaign for hypertension and diabetes self-management to prevent the poor outcomes in people living with hypertension, diabetes or chronic kidney disease.We have now distributed blood pressure monitors to 50 patients. Free one-month supply of anti-hypertensives and anti-diabetes medicines have been dispensed to over 500 people, while we continue to provide free kidney health consultations for people living with CKD in our local community and environs.
We would love to do much more for our clients but funding remains a great challenge.
We appreciate you, our donors for your support and we look forward to reaching more people with your help.
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