For the past four years, we have not been able to take U.S. team members to our clinics for our
annual medical outreaches. In 2019 and 2020, the pandemic restrictions prevented U.S. members from going. Since then, the worsening security situation made it too dangerous for us to go. However, the security threat has improved in some parts of the country and we decided to try a low-key and low-visibility medical outreach at our St. Thomas Clinic in Port Harcourt.
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The importance of this outreach to the community cannot be overstated. It came at a time of the year when farmers experience extreme lack of financial capacity and furthermore against the backdrop of an already impoverished community, plagued by incessant killings from terrorists and bandits.
We run our full-time clinics 365 days per year. We charge a modest fee ($1 for a child and $2 for
an adult) for our patients to see a doctor and we require the patients to pay for their medicine. Even though these rates are heavily subsidized, they are still unaffordable to many of our poor clients. Dear friends and supporters, Life has become increasingly more difficult for
the people of Nigeria in the past four years. The economy and unemployment are the worst in many years, kidnapping and general lawlessness have become an epidemic, and grinding poverty is getting worse for millions of people. Many of our current donors began giving in May of 2003 and continue to this day. Many others have joined us since then.
Here is a young woman with her kids and husband who was saved from the edge of death in our facility.
This patient is a 32-year-old young man with a wife and two children who presented in shock with Typhoid intestinal perforation.
A young woman who was pregnant was rushed into the emergency room on account of prolonged labor. On examination, we discovered she had obstructed labor complicated by placenta Abruptio (premature detachment of the placenta) with severe fetal distress and imminent uterine rupture.
Serving More People Than Ever Before - The Impact of Your Donations Due to the impact of kidnapping and tribal violence, two of our clinics were forced to reduce their service to daylight hours. The doctors left for fear of being kidnapped and nurses have run the clinics. Another one of our rural clinics was forced to close for several months due to marauding gangs which forced the entire village to relocate to a refugee camp. Despite all of these obstacles, and many more, our clinics and outreach teams are helping more people than ever before. The “Big Picture” numbers tell part of the story. How our medical clinics save people’s lives and affect their families tell the “Up Close and Personal” story of the impact your donations make. |
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