PUT UP HEALTH FACILITY IN ZAMBULKURA FOR 10,000 PEOPLE (54492)
Report on project 54492 - Put up a Health Facility in Zambulkura for 10,000 people by Rescue and Restore Hope Zambulkura Ghana (RRHZ). Accessibility to health care services to the people of Zambulkura and many other surrounding communities with a combined population of 10000 people has been a challenge for many years. When RRHZ started annual malaria health screenings and treatment in Zambulkura and its neighbouring communities in 2017, many lives were saved particularly children and pregnant women. This made the communities to made a request to RRHZ to build a 40 – bed capacity health facility and Health workers residence in Zambulkura to make health care easily accessible to the people in these deprived communities.
RRHZ considered the request for a health facility to be legitimate request and accepted to seek funding to construct a 40-bed capacity health facility in Zambulkura. The chief provided a large truck of land for the construction of the facility and health workers residence. Funds raised so far for the project has been used to construct the first phase of 2 rooms to serve as wards with each holding capacity of 8 beds. Funding is needed to continue this critical project to save lives but very slow in coming. We in Rescue and Restore Hope believe that this project is very necessary and still seeking funding to continue the construction to its completion and subsequent opening to serve the people of Zambulkura and surrounding communities.
Though, only the first phase of two rooms of the health facility has been constructed, during our malaria health screenings and treatments in Zambulkura we use the premise to carry out the exercise. We believe that when the health facility is operational it will also serve as immunization center, health education, provide antenatal services, deliveries and many other health care services. We are very grateful to our glorious donors and the wonderful GlobalGiving team. We owe all of you lots of gratitude for the support towards the construction of the health facility. Though there is a lot to be done before the completion and operationalization of the health facility, your donations are very much appreciated and together we shall work to complete the construction of the health facility and health staff residency to provide 24-hour health care services and touch lives positively in Zambulkura and neighbouring communities.
Thank you so very much to our donors and the GlobalGiving Team
Maxwell Tidow Koligu
Founder, Rescue and Restore Hope Zambulkura Ghana
05Th March, 2023
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HEALTH SCREENING ON MALARIA IN ZAMBULKURA COMMUNITY SCHOOL-JANUARY,2023
This is a report on Project 53920 – Treat 6000 children with malaria in Zambulkura Community. The malaria screening and treatment took place on 9th January 2023 at the Zambulkura Primary school by a health team organized by Rescue and Restore Hope Zambulkura Ghana. This screening like the previous screenings was made possible due to donation of funds received from GlobalGiving (GG) for the program. The funds received was used to buy the usual antimalaria medicines such as Rapid malaria test kits for testing every suspected patient before treatment, Anti malaria medicines, cough syrup, de-wormers, multivitamins syrup among other medicines mostly for children. These medicines were bought in Accra the capital of Ghana and travelled to Zambulkura the project site for the program. Our focus for the malaria screening and treatment was the school children in Zambulkura, pregnant women and the aged who could not walk to Nalerigu Baptist Hospital to access health care. Other children in the community who were not enrolled in the school but were from the surrounding communities were considered for the screening and treatment. As we always do when we are going for the programs, we sent a week notice to the school and the communities before the screening date on 9th January 2023.
In this screening a total of 376 people were screened with 51(13.56%) tested positive for malaria disease and were treated with malaria medications. Children suffering from cough, or appeared anaemic were treated with cough syrup and multivitamins. Patients with other health conditions including non-communicable diseases, depending on the situation were treated by the medical team or referred to Nalerigu hospital for further treatment. Among the total of 376 people screened and treated 68 (18.09%) were children between 0-5 years. Children age 6-17 years were 214 (56.91%). Adults and pregnant women who took part in the screening and treatment were a total of 43(11.44%).
Among the test results of 68 children age 0-5years, 7 of them, representing (10.29%) tested positive for malaria. Children age 6-17years who took part in the screening, 35 (16.36%) out of the 214 children tested positive for malaria and were treated. Some members of this group had other medical conditions including infections, cough, with some of the children needing de-worming as well. For the 43 adults included in the exercise were pregnant women and the aged. Among their group, 12 (27.91%) tested positive for malaria disease. From the test results as usual, children of school going age group had the highest number of positive malaria cases of 35 (16.36%), however, in percentage wise, the pregnant women and the aged group had a higher percentage of 27.91%. The high number of school children suffering from the malaria disease has a potential negative impact on school attendance as many children may absent themselves from school because of the malaria disease. Due to lack of access to a health facility and health services in Zambulkura and nearby communities, and the challenges and frustration involved when the communities need to access healthcare, they often delay in getting treatment, leading to complications including deaths. But with the funds coming through GlobalGiving, it has made it possible for us to carry the health screenings more regularly, thereby minimizing the negative impact of the disease on the communities. Particularly there has not been report on deaths associated with malaria among the school children in the past two years.
CONCLUSION
Our donors and GlobalGiving Team has been amazing and very helpful. In fact they deserve all the glory and we at Rescue and Restore Hope Zambulkura Ghana,and all the Zambulkura and surrounding communities owe you lots of gratitude. Your regular donations made it possible for us to regularly carry out the malaria screening and treatment in Zambulkura and its surrounding communities. This has helped in reducing the disease impact on the lives of children and community members in the area.
The platform GlobalGiving provided is a wonderful site that give RRHZ and many other organizations the chance to touch many lives positively in our communities. These malaria screenings are helping so much;however, the construction of a health facility will be a permanent solution to the health needs of these communities. A request by Zambulkura community to put up a 40-bed capacity health facility to provide the much needed health care services to the several communities has been accepted by RRHZ. A piece of land has been provided by the community and construction of the facility has commenced but funding is needed to complete and start operating it to make healthcare easily accessible to all these deprived communities and move towards achievement of the Universal Health Coverage’
Thank you GlobalGiving Team and to all our amazing donors.
TIDOW KOLIGU MAXWELL
FOUNDER (RRHZ)
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MALARIA SCREENING IN ZAMBULKURA PRIMARY SCHOOL-AUGUST 2022
Rescue and Restore Hope Zambulkura Ghana carried out malaria screening under Project 53920 – Treat 6000 children with malaria in Zambulkura on 27th August 2022. This was made possible due to donation of funds received from GlobalGiving (GG) for the program. The funds received was used to buy de-wormers, cough syrup, Rapid malaria test kits, Anti-Malaria medicine, multivitamins for children, and Paracetamol syrup in Accra the capital of Ghana and travelled to Zambulkura the project site for the program. Our focus for the malaria screening and treatment was the school children in Zambulkura, but consideration was given to children who were not enrolled in the school but were from the surrounding communities. Pregnant women from the nearby communities who came to the screening were also attended to. As we normally do when we are going for the programs, we sent a week notice to the school and the communities before the screening date of 27th August 2022.
In this screening a total of 488 people were screened with 94(19.26%) tested positive for malaria disease and were treated with malaria medications and those with other health conditions including non-communicable diseases, depending on the situation were treated by the medical team or referred to Nalerigu Baptist hospital for further treatment. Out of the total of 488 people screened and treated 87 (17.83%) were children between 0-5 years. Children age 6-17 years were 304 (62.29%). Adults and pregnant women who took part in the screening and treatment were a total of 97(19.88%).
Among the test results of 87 children age 0-5years, 11 of them, representing (12.64%) tested positive for malaria. On the children age 6-17years who took part in the screening, 59 (19.40%) out of the 304 children tested positive for malaria and were treated. Many members of this group had other medical conditions including infections, cough, with some of the children needing de-worming as well. For the 97 adults mostly pregnant women and the aged who took part in the exercise, 24 (24.74%) tested positive for malaria disease. From the test results, children of school going age group had the highest number of positive malaria cases of 59 (19.40%), in percentage wise however, the pregnant women and the aged had a higher percentage of 24.74%. The high number of school children suffering from the malaria disease has negative impact on school attendance as many children absent themselves from school due to the malaria disease. Failure to treat early, often leads to complications including deaths. However, with the funds coming through GlobalGiving, it has made it possible for us to carry the health screenings more regularly, thereby minimizing the negative impact of the disease on the communities, as no malaria case deaths among the school children has been reported in 2022.
CONCLUSION
Receiving funds from GlobalGiving has been very helpful to Rescue and Restore Hope Zambulkura Ghana towards the regular carrying out of malaria screening and treatment in Zambulkura and its surrounding communities. This has helped in reducing the negative disease impact of malaria in the lives of children and community members in the area as a whole. In the previous screening a total of 436 people with 77 (17.66%) people tested positives for malaria, compared to this screening where 488 people were screened with 94(19.26) testing positive for the disease. Among the positive cases 5 children were severe malaria and were referred to the Baptist Medical Hospital in Nalerigu for further treatment. There were also 4 children, and 3 pregnant women who were anaemic and were advised to go to the hospital in Nalerigu for further treatment.
Rescue and Restore Hope Zambulkura Ghana, and the people of Zambulkura and its surrounding communities owe our wonderful donors and the ever-great GlobalGiving team lots of gratitude’s for helping us to carry out this screening. The GG platform has provided a great opportunity for RRHZ to mobilize funds to make such positive impact in the lives of the people.
Even though our health screenings are helping to save many lives, Rescue and Restore Hope Zambulkura Ghana has the ambition to construct a 40-bed capacity health facility in Zambulkura to provide quality and readily accessible health care services as a permanent solution to all the surrounding communities rather than the temporary health screenings. Construction of the 40-bed capacity health facility has commenced but funds are needed to complete the project in Zambulkura to make the very much needed health facility easily accessible to the people in the area towards the achievement of the Universal Health Coverage and that of the MDGs in general.
Thank you to all our amazing donors, and awesome GlobalGiving Team for helping to touch the lives of our people positively.
TIDOW KOLIGU MAXWELL
FOUNDER (RRHZ)
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MALARIA SCREENING IN ZAMBULKURA PRIMARY SCHOOL-MAY 2022
This is a report on Project 53920- Treat 6000 children with malaria in Zambulkura area by Rescue and Restore Hope Zambulkura Ghana. The Malaria screening and treatment of children took place on 28th May 2022. Donations of funds received from GlobalGiving (GG) made it possible for us to carried out the program. After we received the funds from GG we bought Rapid malaria test kits, Anti-Malaria medicines, cough syrup, multivitamins for children, De-wormers, and Paracetamol syrup in Accra and traveled to the program site in Zambulkura. Available funds for this program were limited so we targeted children in Zambulkura primary school, however mothers who brought their children from the communities who were not enrolled in the school, some pregnant women and few aged people were allowed to take part in the screening and treatment. A week before the screening date of 28th May 2022, we sent message to the school to inform them of the medical team coming for the screening and treatment of children with malaria in the school.
At the end of the screening a total of 436 people were screened and those tested positive for malaria were 77(17.66%). All positive cases were treated with malaria medications and those with other health conditions including non-communicable diseases, depending on the situation were treated by the medical team or referred to Nalerigu Baptist hospital for further treatment. Out of the total of 436 people who got screened and treated 98 (22.48%) were children between 0-5 years. Children age 6-17 years were 292 (66.97) and those 18 years and above were 46 (10.55) .
From the test results, 98 children were age 0-5years with 17 of them, representing (17.35%) tested positive for malaria. Children age 6-17years who took part in the screening were 292, out of which 53 tested positive for malaria representing (18.15%). For the adults mostly pregnant women and the aged who took part were 46, with 7 of them representing (15.22%) tested positive for malaria. From the test results, children of school going age group had the highest number of positive malaria cases of 53 (18.15%). Whenever there are many school children suffering from the malaria disease it has negative impact on school attendance as many children absent themselves from school due to the malaria disease. If the disease is untreated early, it often leads to complications and possibly death. But with the funds from GG it has made it possible for us to be carrying the health screenings more regularly, as such the disease impact on the people is reducing. Since the beginning of 2022 there have not been death among the school children this year.
CONCLUSION
The regular inflow of funds, though small from GG has made it possible for our team to be carrying regular malaria screening and treatment in Zambulkura and its surrounding communities. This has helped in reducing the negative impact of malaria in the lives of the people particularly children in the area. In the previous screening and treatment we carried out, 894 people were screened with 243 testing positive for the disease which represented (27.18%), compared to this current screening of a total of 436 people with 77 people testing positives for malaria which represents (17.66%). Among the positive cases 3 children were severe malaria and were referred to the Baptist Medical Hospital in Nalerigu for further treatment.
Certainly, the regular activities of Rescue and Restore Hope in the Zambulkura area has been made possible because of the magnanimity of our awesome donors, and the great work of GlobalGiving, and its wonderful team for providing such a great platform to mobilize funds to make such positive impact in the lives of our communities. Together we have saved precious live in these deprived communities in the Zambulkura area through the interventions.
Rescue and Restore Hope Zambulkura Ghana, will continue to work to ‘’rescue and to restore hope’’ to the deprived and vulnerable in Zambulkura and its surrounding communities, and hope our partnership with GlobalGiving, and our cherish donors will continue to improve, and together we will complete our second project of a 40-bed capacity health facility we have started in Zambulkura to make healthcare services easily accessible to the people and save more lives.
Thank you very much to our amazing and wonderful donors and our ever-supportive GG Team.
TIDOW KOLIGU MAXWELL
FOUNDER (RRHZ)
The Health Screenings has made a great impact in the lives of the people of Zambulkura, Jarigitinaga and other surrounding communities. The screening has reduced the number of children dying of malaria in the communities and the school children from Zambulkura community primay school inparticular. Also some pregnant women and aged in the communities did benifited from the malaria screening.
Our medical team also took the opportunity to create awareness and health education on other medical conditions including non communical diseases. Rescue and Restore Hope Zambukura Ghana will continue to make basic health care easily accessible to these deprived communities in Zambulkura area as we seek to build a 40 - bed capacity health facility in Zambulkura to serve 10000 people in the area.
The positive touch of the lives of the children could not have been possible without the support of GlobalGiving Team, the donors and the dedicated volunteers of Rescue and Restore Hope Zambulkura Ghana. Together several lives of children have been saved.
Tidow Maxwell Koligu, Founder and Executive Director
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