Consistent with our commitment and core objective to reduce inequality in both access and quality of health care delivery services, most especially in vulnerable, undeserved, and hard to reach communities adapting to the effects of climate change (flood, poverty, and extremes of temperature), the Unik Impact Foundation with the technical support of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Jigawa State branch, sponsored a medical outreach on the 24th of October, 2020, at Sule Tankarkar town, of Sule Tankarkar Local Government Area, Jigawa State.
Sule Tankarkar is located in the northern most extreme of Jigawa State, which also borders Niger Republic with extreme temperatures due to deforestation and desert encroachment. This makes the communities in the area particularly vulnerable to malaria, cerebrospinal meningitis, and many other disease conditions that thrive in extreme heat.
About 1,253 people, mostly women and children, benefited from the program.
Common diseases treated and services offered included malaria, diarrhoeal diseases, upper respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections, enteric fever, sepsis, aneamia, antenatal services, chronic infected wounds, skin infections, allergies, and cases of malnutrition, elevated blood pressure, eye infections, and rheumatism
