By Nmatullah Umar | M&E officer
Dear Friends, Supporters and Family of Serendipity Healthcare Foundation,
As part of our resolve to ensure we have a malaria free environment in our communities in Kano; our strategy this past quarter was focused mainly on strengthening our surveillance through tracking of the number of cases of malaria infection in the communities we are working in. The method we used was survey forms given to the women in the community after having talks with them on home management of malaria with records from the community hospital.
We also embarked upon advocacy visits to the local governing council to get their committment to invest more in to the reduction of malaria by providing Insecticide Treated Nets for the communities.We have thus written to the local council head for us to partner with them on evaluating the impact we have thus far made in the distribution of the ITNs as well as the number of cases of malaria per community but as as at filing this report the local council is yet to get back to us on the partnership.
There were also ITNS that we redistributed to families in Burkiya, one of the communities worst affected with malaria cases. During the forth coming Malaria week of April 13-26, 2020, we intend to do more surveys to track the prevalence of the disease and the coverage of ITNs thus far, conduct malaria tests using the Rapid Diagnostic test kits and increase our advocacy to private companies to invest in reducing malaria where they are located as their corporate social responsibility.
We are aware that much more needs to be done to cover more communities and these are the ways to which we can reach out to these communities to evaluate work done thus far. This only possible through your kind donations and continued support to distribute more ITNs, increase our survellience mechanism, residual indoor spraying and rapid diagnostic test kits to test community members for malaria.
You can follow us on twitter @serendipityHea1, or like our facebook page/serenhealthcare or contact us via email on serenhealthcare@gmail.com to learn more about our work.
Best Regards,
Nmatullah Umar
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