Health
LIFTED Hands, a medical outreach based in the U.S., says it is extending the programmes to three states in Nigeria, targeting free treatment for over 5000 people.
Coordinator of the Gifted Hands, Engr. Moses Okaro, said the Foundation treated over 2000 patients in Anambra in 2023.
“Our 2024 outreach will be extended to Abia and Lagos State, and still including Anambra.
Okaro said that announcements on the 2024 billed to kick from July 17 to 20 in Anambra is ongoing.
“From the Ogidi center in Anambra, we will then move to Abia and from Abia to Lagos.
“The 2024 outreach will most importantly, include Eye surgeries and other minor surgeries. We did not include such surgeries in 2023 because we could not finalize arrangements for follow ups.
“We have been able to arrange with some hospitals and medical doctors here in Nigeria that will conduct the follow ups on on surgery patients,” he said.
According to him, Lifted Hands Inc. is an organization that has a history of providing for the needs of people in Nigeria.
“We use over 20 doctors and 40 nurses during our missions. Our mission in Nigeria in 2023 was very successful and was met with a great response.
“We provided blood pressure screenings, diabetes screening, eye screenings, and provided hundreds of people with prescription eyeglasses. In addition to the screenings,
“We provided medications, clothes, food, and health education. The people were given emotional support and information to help them live healthy lifestyles.
“After the mission, the local medical professionals gathered the information needed to determine the A1C and was to be given to the American medical professionals.
“This information was used to determine treatment used to help the participants because with some of their blood sugar and blood pressure numbers being so high, we paid for participants to be seen at the local hospital for additional services.”
He said the outreach would be leading a team of medical professionals and other local volunteers to Nigeria for the 2024 mission.
“Our aim is for the 2024 mission in Nigeria, is to be bigger than the year before in the aspect of impacting even more lives.
“Our team will be providing basic medical care and medical education to hundreds of families in several small, extremely impoverished villages.
” In addition to what we did last year, we will also include eye surgeries, workout classes, food nutrition, and goal setting. We also plan on bringing clothes, soap, toothpaste, and other necessities as well.
“In the future.we will not only plan on focusing on eye surgeries. We want to provide pregnancy education, being clean knowledge, and how to clean drinking water. Some women in Nigeria don’t even know they are pregnant until months later.
“Therefore, they miss out on prenatal care and other care that they should get during the early months of their pregnancy.
“They also need to be educated on cleaning their drinking water. The water here is full of pollution and without proper cleaning and sterilization, they become ill,” he add.
He, however, urged well -to-do Nigerians to endeavor to help the needy in the country and not leave everything to governmental.
“All over the world, the well off give to those in need. That is compassion and compassion is true religion.
“There is no gain targeted by this mission. Our aim is to give and continue to give to as many people as we can. Therefore, anyone willing to be part of the mission in whatever volunteer or donation capacity will be accepted,” he added.
A.I
July 06, 2024 @ 06:47 GMT
Tags: Engr. Moses Okaro Lifted Hands
