Yola South Medical Missions Reporting

RCN MEDICAL MISSIONS REPORTING Yola South, Adamawa State 17th and 18th of April, 2025 Background, team The RCN Missions’ Hospital was commissioned in year 2024 with its mission of providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare, driven by love and guided by faith. The institution is devoted to delivering top-tier services that prioritize the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of patients. The hospital is physically located in Makurdi Benue State, however, her reach extends beyond Makurdi to the far ends of Nigeria even reaching to distant and rural communities of the country. This is achieved through her three core programmes which include; AromeCare (Medical Missions/Outreaches) DinnaCare (Women and Children Health Support Programme) DOCcare (Dedicated Organisation for Communities Care/Community Health Interventions) The Medical Missions Team to Bauchi The Medical Missions team of the RCN Medical Center, under the umbrella of the Remnant Christian Network conducted a two-day free medical outreach at Yola South local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria which held on 17th and 18th of April, 2025. The team consisted of three Medical Doctors, Nurses, Medical lab Technicians, Records officer and a logistic officer. The team also had some members of the community who volunteered for the outreach in areas like crowd control and patient flow. Activities: Pre-visit, visit, post-visit. Beneficiaries Residents of Yola South Local Government, Adamawa State were the beneficiaries of the free medical outreach Aims / Goals Providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare, driven by love and guided by faith is the core purpose of the RCN Medical Missions. The aim of the medical outreach was to provide health education, basic and essential health checks and screening, medical consultation services, basic medical interventions, counselling and medications for members of the community. Impact assessment Qualitative: During the medical crusade, the people of Yola South local government area received health talk, they had their vital signs checked, there was a laboratory stand with equipment to provide free tests to people as required, the tests available included; Rapid Diagnostic test (RDT) for malaria parasite, test for Hepatitis B virus (HBsAg), test for Hepatitis C virus, blood sugar level test, widal test and RDT for HIV. All patients seen were given the opportunity to pass through the counselling station where they had access to spiritual and emotional care, counselling and prayers with adequate privacy ensured. Finally, the pharmacy provided the people with free medications as prescribed. Quantitative: Impact in Numbers (Demography and Health Statistics) Day 1: A total of 248 people were attended to with females being 193 in number and males 55. The age of the participants ranged from 2months old to 81 years of age Day 2: A total of 144 people were attended to with females being 111 and males 33.The age of the participants ranged from 1year 3 months old to 85 years of age Accounting Amount spent on medical consumables Medications Laboratory Consumables General Consumables Amount spent on food/ items/ gifts Personnel remuneration Logistics and Transportation Preparation, Publicity and Reporting FINANCIAL REPORT OF NORTH EAST MISSIONS 1st – 18th April 2025 (Bauchi, Kaltungo, Biu, Michika, Yola) ITEM AMOUNT Vehicle arrangement ssss 210,000 Fuel 284,158 Lab 419,500 Pharmacy 1,152,693.12 Stipend @ 7 persons for 4 locations 280,000 Yola stipend/appreciation 310,000 Bauchi volunteers(12 persons) 40,000 Biu volunteers(2 persons) 10,000 Michika vounteers (5 persons) 25,000 Tp refund to Nr Sewuese & Diana 25,000 Feeding & accommodation 250,000 Finger batteries 5,200 HDL battery 400 Sellotape 700 Fixing of car plate number 500 Tollgate fee 1,500 Drinking water 6,100 Snacks & drinks 21,500 Black leather 4,700 Car repair 5,000 Bathroom slippers 600 Bikeman fare @ Biu 1,000 Car wash 5,000 Rim A4 paper 6,000 Mobil engine oil 5,500 Biros 500 Tyre /Jack/wheel spanner 43,000 Tyre replacement workmanship 1,500 TOTAL 3.115,051.12 BALANCE with Dr. Dooyum 42,662.14 Worth of services provided: (value assessment) Cost of drugs at 15% mark-up Prevailing cost of investigation services Cost of consultations at prevailing rate Cost of feeding Cost of gifts and other items Others Funding and Sponsorship Medical Missions Vital Summary Statistics Number of clients seen: A total number of 392 individuals were attended to Bio-demographic distribution: All patients consented to receiving the free medical checks, consultation and free medication. The age of patients from the two days ranged from 2 months to 85 years. Many of the patients (21.2%) were within 41 – 50 years of age, followed by 51 – 60 years (17.1%), the least represented age group was 71 years and above (3.7%). Majority of the recipients of the medical outreach were females (78.7%). Vital Signs: Temperature was checked for 388 persons, majority of them (55.7%) had temperature within the range of 36.6˚C – 37.5 ˚C, many of them (26.3%) had temperature within the range of 35.5˚C – 36.5˚C while others (18%) had above 37.5 ˚C. Pulse was checked for 333 persons with 89.8% having pulse rate within the range of 60-100 b/m, 7.2% had pulse rate above 100 b/m, while 3% had 50-59 b/m. Blood pressure was checked for 334 persons with 59.6% having blood pressure within the range of 90/60 – 130/90mmHg, 15.9% had blood pressure within the range of 131/90 – 140/90mmHg, 14.1% of them had blood pressure above 150/90mmHg, 10.5% had blood pressure within the range of 141/90 – 150/90mmHg. Lab Tests: Lab tests were done based on the consulting officer’s request. For blood sugar, 52 persons had blood sugar checks with 76.9% having blood sugar levels within the range of 4.0-7.8mmol/L and 19.2% had blood sugar above 8. 5mmol/L. Five persons were tested for Hepatitis B, 80% were non-reactive, 20% (1 person) was reactive. Four persons were tested for Hepatitis C, all (100%) were non-reactive, seven people had RVS test done and 100% were non-reactive. Disease Pattern (Diagnosis): The most common diagnosis with 40.3% (163 people) was Malaria followed by diagnoses of Dyspepsia (21.8%), Hypertension was reported in 54 people (13.4%). Some other prominent conditions diagnosed include; enteric fever (5.7%), gastroenteritis (5%), UTI (5.4%), low back pain (5%), vaginal candidiasis (4%), osteoarthritis (4%) and others. Secondary Referrals: From the data collected for people attended to, 32 of them (7.9%) required secondary referral Medications Prescribed: The following medications were prescribed, Antimalarial tablets (41%), tab paracetamol 32.7%, tab omeprazole (24.3%), tab diclofenac (22.5%), tab ciprofloxacin (22.5%), tab amlodipine (17.8%), tab gelusil (16.8%), tab ibuprofen (13.4%), tab Lisinopril (11.9%), tab albendazole (11.9%), tab amoxicillin (10.1%), tab metronidazole (9.7%). Other medications prescribed include multivitamin tablets, doxycycline capsules, vasoprin, cough syrup and expectorant, tab vitamin B-complex, Suspension gascol, tab piriton, tab ampiclox, tab prednisolone, tab Augmentin, syrup antibiotics and syrup non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs were also prescribed for pediatrics as well as other medications. 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Recommendations Medication list should be made available for each consulting practitioner ahead of outreach, to ensure that they are aware and can work with available medications During pre-visit stage with weeks ahead of the outreach, medical practitioners should be contacted and a pool of possible available and qualified volunteers should be secured and constant communication should be made with them ahead of the upcoming outreach Interpreters should be made available for stations needing them Deputy Director of missions’ comment Director’s Comment and Signature.