Summer FaithCare Mission - We Helped more People Than Ever Before

From July 23 to August 7, 2016 , we conducted our annual FaithCare Medical Outreach in Kaduna, Nigeria.  As always, this is a joint effort between Kateri Medical Services, Inc. , FaithCare and the Anglican Diocese of Kaduna.   A team of 14 people from the US joined about 100 Nigerian volunteer surgeons, consulting doctors, eye doctors,  nurses, dentists, prayer counselors and crowd controllers to conduct an annual intensive medical mission.

This year, we held our main mission venue at Jacraranda Farm in Kaduna.  And we also held two satellite clinics at Kateri Medical Clinic and at our new Iburu Clinic.  For the past five years, we have not been able to hold our FaithCare outreach at Kateri because of security concerns.  But the security situation seems to be improving and we decided to try a three-day satellite clinic at each of our existing clinics in Kateri and Iburu.  This experiment worked out very well and we hope to relocate our main clinic venue back to Kateri and Iburu next year.  We feel that this is a better model because it strengthens the tie between our patients and our year-round clinics. When they need follow-up care, they can return to the Kateri and Iburu Clinics.

The multiple venues for the clinics allowed us to help more people than ever before.  Here are some of the statistics:

Surgeries                          229
Dental Care                       578
Eye Care                          2,226
Eye Glasses                      912
Prescriptions filled             5,024
Prayer &  counseling         6,810
Receiving Christ                493

Kateri Satellite Clinic          781
Iburu Satellite Clinic           801
Jacaranda Main Clinic       7,947

Total People Served           9,529

We were greatly encouraged by the success of the satellite clinics and the overall increase in the number of people we were able to help. This is the highest number we have ever helped in our many years of doing these summer intensive clinics.  We are very grateful for all of your support by prayer, moral support and donations.  We couldn’t have done this great work without all of you, our supporters.