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Our Clinics Timeline |
Our Clinics provide basic medical services for poor rural people who are mostly subsistence farmers. In addition to the regular daily clinic operations, volunteer doctors and nurses from Kaduna Diocese bring medical care to remote rural villages through our mobile clinics.
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In 2022, we helped 11,243 people in our six regular clinics.
Kateri Clinic |
We began in 2002 when a team from Trinity Episcopal Church in Tariffville, Connecticut in the United States visited our long-time friend Bishop Josiah Fearon in the Anglican Diocese of Kaduna. At that time, Bishop Josiah showed us an empty building in Kateri where he hoped to open a medical clinic. Prior to that time, a member of Kaduna Diocese, Dr. Adekunle Alao, had been conducting mobile clinics in the rural villages around Kateri. Dr. Alao felt that the needs of the local people could be better served if a full-time clinic were established in Kateri (about 90 minutes drive from the nearest medical facility Kaduna). The team from the US left Kaduna with a commitment to raise enough funds to hire a doctor and two nurses for the Kateri Clinic. In May of 2003, we raised enough money to fund the clinic for the next three years, and the clinic was opened. Since that time, we have run Kateri Clinic 365 days per year. We now have a full-time staff of 21 medical and non-medical workers here. We help about 8,000 people per year through the year-round clinic, the mobile clinics and the annual free medical mission.
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Iburu Clinic |
In 2016, we have begun two new partnerships that will bring medical care to urban poor. We are working with the Diocese of Gusau to build a clinic next to an urban secondary school which is run by the diocese. This new clinic will serve a dual purpose. First, serving poor people who cannot afford medical care and secondly, to provide “on the job training’ for students at the school who wish to become doctors, nurses an lab technicians.
In July 2016, we built and opened our second clinic in Iburu ( a rural village about 45 minutes to the southeast of Kaduna). The Iburu Clinic is also done in partnership with the Anglican Diocese of Kaduna |
Port Harcourt Clinic |
In January 2019 we began a partnership with a fifth clinic in Port Harcourt. We are trying a new model with our partnership with St. Thomas Clinic. In our earlier clinics we work in partnership with the Anglican Diocese. At St. Thomas, we work in partnership with the Rev. Dr. Olaniyi Olaobaju, who is both an ordained Anglican parish priest in the Diocese of Niger Delta North and a medical doctor. Together with his wife Kehinde, they have purchased and renovated the clinic building. Kateri Medical Services has helped by raising funds for diagnostic lab equipment and funding the medical outreaches at the clinic. In 2020, we will be helping with funding for an additional doctor on staff and a vehicle to conduct mobile clinics to the rural villages. We will also be helping with upgrading the surgical equipment for the clinic.
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Bari Clinic |
In 2020, we began a partnership with the Anglican Diocese of Bari for our sixth clinic, The B.B. Ayam Clinic and Maternity. Bari is in Kano State, a Muslim majority / Christian minority area in northern Nigeria. The Anglican Diocese had already built the clinic building prior to our partnership, but was unable to pay the staff due to poor economic conditions. The medical staff consists of three CHEWs (Community Health Extension Workers) who oversee the clinic full-time and a doctor and nurse who visit two days per week. The clinic serves about 1,000 people each year.
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Kebbi Clinics |
In 2021 we have begun a new partnership with the a rural Diocese in the northwestern part of Nigeria. This area is small and has limited resources as one of the most medically underserved areas in Nigeria. For security reasons, we are not publishing the names and locations of the three small rural clinics and one main clinic in Kebbi. This will bring us to a total of eleven clinics.
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