H e a l t h f o r D e v e l o p m e n t

O f u - O b i C o m p r e h e n s i v e H e a l t h C e n t r e , A g b i l i g b a , N a n k a , N i g e r i a .

OOCHC

Volume 1, Issue 1

Our History
According to the address read by the Nanka Patriotic Union during the commissioning ceremony; sometime in the 1980s the OfuObi Age Grade (young adults in their late teens and early twenties then) of Agbiligba, Nanka commenced a noble initiative aimed at establishing a standard health facility capable of providing comprehensive health care services to the people of Nanka and beyond. What motivated the Age-Grade to embark on this Project was the fact that Nanka, erosion- ravaged but the most populated community in the Local Government, depended on a Primary Health Care Facility set up through community effort in 1949. The commissioning of OOCHC changed the situation. The Project was started after approval, on 7th May, 1991, by the Anambra State Ministry of Health, Enugu. In 1993 the then Grade couldnt continue. Various fund raising activities were conducted to facilitate the completion. One of them was in 2001 when the then Governor of Anambra State, Dr Clement Chinweoke Mbadunuju, promised to see to the completion and equipping of the hospital. It stopped there. The promises were not fulfilled. Nothing was done. The project became overgrown by bush. It became a hideout for criminal elements in the community. The health of People of Nanka became even more endangered. In 2006, through the hand of God, the Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, EEPNL, with approval of NNPC, decided to extend its corporate social responsibility to

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Inside this issue:

Our Services 2

Feedback

Community Activities 3

Quality Improvement

The Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi with other The Mr. Governor of Anambra dignitaries, during the commisState, Mr. Peter Obi with other sioning of during our facility on the dignitaries, the commisrd 23of of July, 2012 sioning our facility on the 23rd of July, 2012

From our Clients

Governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Pius Ezeife, laid the Foundation Stone. After the roofing of the building in 1997, the Age

Our Mission To establish a standard resource base for improving health and promoting wellness of all our communities

the Age Grade and People of Nanka. On Tuesday, 4th September, 2007, the fate of this hospital and that of Nanka Community changed with the arrival of the Project Consultant- Centre for Val-

ues in Leadership, (CVL), who worked to complete the building and provided the required equipment for service delivery with funds provided by Esso Exploration.

The facility was commissioned on the 23rd of July 2012 by the Executive Governor of Anambra State and since then has remained open 24 hours of everyday to our dear clients.

Our Vision To provide health care of the highest standard

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Health for Development

Our Services
Our facility is open to our clients for all the 24 hours of each day, providing care and support as required. Doctors are available in within the 24 hours to provide leadership for the clinical team which engages in the routine and regular capacity building sessions. We run weekly Ante Natal Care clinic for our pregnant mothers; with a labor room equipped with up to date equipment, our clinical team adheres to standard protocols to deliver quality obstetric services. Our theater is one of the most modern in Anambra State; equipped with modern equipments to deliver excellent services. We have established partnerships with specialist surgeons in different fields to utilize our theater to provide specialist surgical services for our people. We have ensured that cost does not deter our people from accessing the available services by maintaining a pricing policy that keeps the prices of services at the most competitive point. Consultation for our general OPD remains free; we

The President General of Nanka Patriotic Union (NPU) is seen addressing management and staff of our facility. The leadership of Nanka community has continued to support the facility to ensure quality service delivery to our clients.

Our Services
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Mohandas K. Gandhi
maintain a wide range of pharmaceutical products to ensure that every need is met; and drugs are sold at minimal profit. We have a brand new ambulance that has facilitated our referral system; making it easy to get patients to access higher services beyond what we offer Our laboratory delivers the widest range of laboratory services and has been positioned to support other laboratories around Nanka thereby contributing to the health care for people who are not our primary patients. Every Saturday of every week is our eye clinic which is run by consultant Ophthalmologist who partners with our facility to deliver services which ordinarily can only be available in the teaching hospital. The clinic attracts clients from far and wide and is promising to restore the eye sights of a huge number of our people.

FEEDBACK
Data collected during facility and community outreach activities indicate a high incidence of hypertension and diabetes. We advice that people routinely check their blood pressure as well as their blood sugar level.

Our ambulance is fully equipped to provide life support services.

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Community Activities
We continue to engage the community members beyond the facility. In an outreach program in Amaokwe Village, Agbiligba, on the 13th of February, we mobilized more than 100 people, who benefitted from the talks. All persons who attended the activity received medical consultation from qualified doctors and other medical personnel; all adults were screened for high blood pressure and blood sugar; while those who had the indication received treatment for diabetes, hypertension, worm infestation and malaria On the 2nd of March, we were invited to, and allowed to participate in the meeting of the Women group of EtiNanka; the opportunity allowed us to share health information to the women group. The women encouraged us albeit, sharing testimonies of Gods miracles on the lives of people they know through our facility. The confidence they reposed on us and the soul moving prayer they bequeath on us will keep us challenged to continually improve our services to meet the need of our people. These community activities have further strengthened our knowledge about the health situation in Nanka and environs; the knowledge that is helping us modify our

The Women Leader of NPU, Mrs. Regina Uguchukwu participated and mobilized the community members for greater utilization of our facility during the outreach program in Amaokwe Sq. on the 13th of February 2012

Community Activities
programs to ensure that the needs of our people are better met. Our plan is to continue to identify more opportunities for engaging community members. We plan to conduct free screening for diabetes and hypertension in all the villages in Nanka. Several cultural and social activities take place in Nanka; these provide opportunity for reaching our people effectively. We request for information of such occasions, to enable us participate in them. We have enjoyed patronage, support, guidance and encouragement from a great number of Nanka leaders. We thank them and hope for more support from them and other leaders to enable us meet the needs of our people.

If Id known I was going to live this long, Id have taken better care of myself. Eubie Blake

Quality Improvement
We are dedicated to quality improvement; effort is continually made to identify best practices that will improve the quality of services that we render. We have adopted an electronic information management system that facilitates client management; while we have engaged our staff and service providers in thorough and ongoing capacity building exercises, which has enhanced our staffs capacity even beyond health care provision. These have led to continued improvement; our client waiting time has continued to decrease while complains which occurred in high numbers when we started have started turning into volumes of commendations. Our client relationship has improved over time; we want to do better. We ask that you access our services; monitor our services; and critique our services, as we are a learning organization ready to improve.

A cross section of clients waiting to be attended to by our ophthalmologist. Our facility has succeeded in providing tertiary eye care for our clients.

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O f u - O b i C o m p r e h e n s i v e H e a l t h C e n t r e .
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From Our Clients

Feedback from our clients drive our intentions. We got feedback from four women when we met them in the communities while on community outreach activities: Mrs. Pauline Mba (08064269428) an indigene of Enugu, Nanka was one of the women present during the meeting of the women group of Enugu Village in Nanka. During our community outreach program with the women group, Mrs. Mba engaged the crowd unsolicited to describe how her daughter had suffered an ear problem which took them to many facilities before they visited ours (OOCHC). She described how she almost lost hope of getting the right treatment for her daughter when she observed that the medical team was made up of youthful persons and lost hope when she was told that her fee was one hundred naira after her daughter had received all her treatment and medication. She was overwhelmed with joy when after two days of her daughter using the medication prescribed by our medical personnel, her ear problem was entirely controlled.

Our commitment to quality improvement drives our training programs which are designed to ensure that our staff provide the best of services.