By Fatima Lawani | Head, Fundraising
Dear friends, family and supporters of Serendipity,
As part of our ongoing coverage to supply Insecticide Treated Nets to more wards in the community, we came across a case of a young boy who has been battling with fever for over two weeks before our arrival into the community; the strange thing about this whole scenario was that his parents believed he was possessed by evil spirits and hence refused to seek medication; upon our investigation with our outreach medical personnel, we found out that Ibrahim (not real name) had a temperature over 40 degrees and thus started convulsing hence his parents thinking he was possessed. Our timely intervention saved Ibrahim's life as it took a lot of convincing and assurance by our medical personnel and the local religious cleric to his father that he had high fever and thus needed medical attention at the primary healthcare centre.
And Ibrahim has this to say and I quote "I am happy that you good people came at the time you did to save my life and I thank you for that".
We are glad that we strive to help save children from malaria in Madobi, Kano, Nigeria through advocacy, health awareness programmes and issuance of Insecticide Treated Nets to reduce its spread. This is not an easy issue for us as it still stands. We are still very short of funding to get the nets in whole sale and currently relying on retail prices which is not economical due to the low budget we have.
A net is now costing a little over $25 over the counter and with the current election atmosphere it is becoming difficult to obtain.
Nonetheless, we were able to distribute nets to young brides and boys in the community as most of them have been the highest cases of malaria incidence from the report we got from the healthcare centre but with this issuance we hope to see a reduction in outpatient cases of malaria.
We are still appealing for your continous support to help us in fighting malaria not only in Kano, Nigeria but the whole of Africa.
You can follow us on twitter @serendipityHea1, like our facebookpage/serenhealthcare or connect with us at LinkedIn/samirahfaruk.
Best,
Fatima Lawani,
Head, Fundraising
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