Kaltungo Medical Missions Reporting – Gombe State (5th–7th April 2025)

RCN MEDICAL MISSIONS REPORTING Kaltungo, Gombe State 5th, 6th and 7th April, 2025 1. Background / Team The RCN Missions’ Hospital, commissioned in 2024, is committed to providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare driven by love and guided by faith. Although located in Makurdi, Benue State, its reach extends to distant and rural communities through: • AromeCare (Medical Missions/Outreaches) • DinnaCare (Women and Children Health Support Programme) • DOCcare (Dedicated Organisation for Communities Care) A medical outreach was conducted at Kaltungo LGA, Gombe State. Team members included a Medical Doctor, Nurses, Medical Lab Scientist, Pharmacy Technician, Records Officer and Logistic Officer. The outreach covered: • Day 1 (5th April): Kaltungo Stadium – community outreach • Day 2 (6th April): Palace outreach • Day 3 (7th April): Kaltungo Stadium – second community outreach Community volunteers assisted with registration, crowd control and patient flow. 2. Activities Pre-visit, visit and post-visit procedures were carried out. 3. Beneficiaries Residents of Kaltungo Local Government, Gombe State. 4. Aims / Goals To provide health education, basic health checks, screening, consultations, counselling and medications to community members. 5. Impact Assessment Qualitative: • Health talks and vital signs check • Free laboratory tests (malaria RDT, HBsAg, HCV, blood sugar, widal, HIV) • Counselling for emotional/spiritual support • Free medications dispensed The Palace outreach successfully served 40 persons (35 females, 5 males; ages 8–80). Community leaders expressed deep appreciation for both medical and spiritual services. Quantitative: Stadium Day 1: 211 patients (160 females, 51 males), ages 1–84 Palace: 40 patients (35 females, 5 males), ages 8–75 Stadium Day 2: 267 patients (215 females, 52 males), ages 5 months–88 6. Accounting Expenses included medications, lab consumables, logistics, stipends, food, transportation and mission supplies. 7. Worth of Services Provided Value included: cost of drugs (with markup), investigations, consultations, feeding, logistics, gifts and miscellaneous items. 8. Funding and Sponsorship (Not specified in report) 9. Vital Statistics Summary • Total patients attended: 518 • Ages: 5 months–88 years • Females constituted 78.9% of attendees Vital signs summary: • 408 temperature checks: majority 36.6–37.5°C • 396 pulse checks: 90.9% within 60–100 bpm • 246 BP checks: 63.2% within 90/60–130/90mmHg Lab tests summary: • Blood sugar: 45 tests, 82.2% normal • Malaria: 36 tests, 2.8% positive • Hep B: 27 tests, 7.4% positive • Hep C: 27 tests, 3.7% positive • HIV (RVS): 5 tests, 40% positive Common diagnoses: Dyspepsia (37.2%), URTI (20.2%), Malaria (9.1%), Hypertension (9.5%), Enteric fever (6.4%), Vaginal candidiasis (6.4%), Low back pain, Myalgia, Osteoarthritis, PID, Gastroenteritis, UTI, Dermatitis. Referrals: 93 patients required secondary referrals. Medications: High-volume prescriptions included paracetamol, metronidazole, amoxicillin, omeprazole, ciprofloxacin, gelusil, antimalarials, diclofenac, vitamin C and antihypertensives. 10. Challenges & Recommendations Challenges: • Insufficient drugs leading to incomplete prescriptions • Inadequate qualified practitioners (only one doctor, no pharmacist) • Language barriers • Manual data collection delays Recommendations: • Provide medication list and ensure availability • Secure volunteer practitioners during pre-visit stage • Provide interpreters for critical stations • Improve planning and logistics coordination 11. Images & Documentation Photos of stadium outreach, palace outreach, stations (registration, vitals, consultation, lab, pharmacy), volunteers and permission documents were included in the original report. End of Report.