By Fatima Lawani | Head, Fundraising
Dear Family, Friends and Supporters of Serendipity Healthcare Family,
The fight to stop the spread of yellow fever is ongoing as we are not our of the woods yet. There was two reported cases of yellow fever in Yar Kuje of Ungogo Local Governing Councils, one of the communities were we worked and thus we took our campaign advocacy to the community.
We had a focus group discussion with the women group and the children on identification of the signs and symptoms of yellow fever and malaria. It was a fruitful discussion as prior to now, they were not aware of the ailment until it occured within their community and as such could not do anything to prevent the death of those children.
The women leader Zaliha Barau in her own words expressed such great concern over the state of their community and promised to set up a team on sanitation enforcers to ensure breeding grounds for mosquitoes are not cultivated.
Habiba a sister to one of the victims said in the local language "ina matukar godiya akan talafi da a ka zo mana da shi yau kuma Allah SWT ya biya, ameen. Nafiu da yana da rai yau idan mun san duk wadan nan abubuwa. Mun gode"!! The translation means that she is happy with this new information about knowing the signs and symptoms of Malaria and wished they had this information earlier perhaps her brother Nafiu would be alive".
Rapid Diagnostic tests were conducted on children and women present and none of them had symptoms of malaria.
Through your support we are gaining grounds in our advocacy campaigns through radio and distribution of Insecticide Treated Nets to rural communities but much still needs to be done we are soliciting for your continuos support to reach more communities in our rural areas.
You can send us an email on serenhealthcare@gmail.com for further enquires, follow us on our Facebook page/serenhealthcare, LinkedIn/samirahfaruk and twitter @serendipityHea1 or give us a call on 2348035905524 to know how you can donate.
Thank you,
Fatima Lawani
Head, Fundraising
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