By Afam Onyema | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Our network of five solar-powered maternal and family centers in southeast Nigeria were extremely busy in 2022, as they served hundreds of poor and 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.
As we have done since 2014, we continue to screen and treat hundreds of vulnerable pregnant women for anemia every month, with the latest model of Pronto screening devices put into the field into 2022. 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.
Dr. Kevin El-Hayek, Dr. Veronica Sullins, Dr. Bipan Chand and Nurse Cherese Lofton and a team of Nigerian surgeons and anesthesiologists performed 52 procedures on 33 patients in 4.5 days (34 hernia procedures, 4 OB/GYN, 9 pediatric, 24 adult surgeries, 2 adhesion surgeries). They also provided hands-on laparoscopic surgery training and gave lectures to 28 Nigerian surgeons and doctors who traveled from all over the country to participate. Total financial value of surgeries - $78,000 / Total financial value of trainings - $25,000
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