Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

Healthcare and eye health

A screening that found something else

A visitor who came for an eye test left knowing his blood sugar, and with a referral.

A visitor to the annual outreach
I came about my eyes. I did not know about the other thing.

He joined the queue for the eye clinic. Because we screen for blood sugar, hepatitis, HIV and malaria alongside it, he was tested for all of them while he waited.

The result was one he needed to act on, and he was referred to a clinic that could manage it.

Running the screening beside the eye clinic costs us very little and catches things that would otherwise go unnoticed for years. This is why the two are never separated.

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