Medical Care

The Nwanyieze Memorial Medical Clinic

The level of healthcare in many parts of Africa is very low as compared to world standards. Without a healthcare resource our children’s lives would be at risk. Right Steps established the Nwanyieze Clinic as another component of the organization’s holistic efforts in the area.

The Clinic provides health and psychological health services under which residents of Susana Homes as well as those from nearby communities come for counseling and other healthcare treatment not available from basic healthcare services.Healthcare is provided by two full-time registered nurses, and at present monthly visits and clinics held by a physician from the Nigeria Christian Hospital (located nearby), to all the residents at Susana Homes. This is of primary importance as many children arrive under nourished, ill, or even abused. They all receive a complete medical exam including testing for HIV/AIDS, and other contagious illnesses upon their entrance to the program. Then on an as needed basis all medical care is also provided through the clinic in connection with NCH.

Primary healthcare is provided to all of the children who attend the Right Steps Christian School in the form of daily vitamins, food supplements for at-risk children, and regularly scheduled checkups for skin diseases, childhood illnesses, and other primary health issues which occur. There is no charge for these services to the children.

In the near future, we have developed plans to employ a full or part-time physician who will live in the compound of Susana Homes. This will improve the quality and level of medical services significantly to the home as well as to the community. Currently, emergency health services are very difficult to obtain, due to our distance from the hospital.