By Afam Onyema | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Our network of five solar-powered maternal and family centers in southeast Nigeria continues to thrive. Through each of them, we serve hundreds of poor, vulnerable women and children every day. Services include maternal healthcare, safe delivery of healthy babies, infant and child vaccinations, pharmacy utilization, and the training of young nurses, midwives and traditional birth attendants.
In July, GEANCO CEO Afam Onyema and board members Ebele & Nche Onyema visited two of our clinics in Enugu. They toured the facilities and spoke with the staff and nurse trainees.
As we have done since 2014, we continue to screen and treat hundreds of vulnerable pregnant women for anemia every month. We also continue to provide safe delivery "mama kits" to over two dozen rural clinics in Nigeria. A new shipment of 3,600 was delivered to Nigeria from the US in September.
In mid-November, Drs. Kevin El-Hayek, Veronica Sullins and Bipan Chand will lead a special surgical mission to Life International Hospital in Anambra State, Nigeria. In addition to performing free surgeries, our team will also give lectures and provide hands-on laparoscopic surgery training to dozens of local surgeons and medical residents.
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By Afam Onyema | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
By Afam Onyema | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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