WHEEL OF HOPE
Wheel of Hope mission is the Humanitarian part of Jesus word Alive.
This mission cater is for the poor, the sick, orphans, widows and prisoners.
Together with a team of professionally trained and qualified doctors, nurses and pharmacists, we diagnose and treat patients free of charge.
Moving from one community to other, to towns and villages in mission fields through evangelistic campaigns have given us passion for medical care for the needy.
Communities in the deprived cities, towns and villages across Africa need an intervention through medical care because of the level of poverty. We are trusting God for greater grace and provision to be blessing to families that are in need of free medical care.
THE NEED TO SUPPORT *WHEEL OF HOPE *
MISSIONS (W.O.H.M.) FREE MEDICAL SERVICES
This charitable group has various units that enable us to touch lives of people. The units include:
- a) Medical Team
- b) Mercy Ministry Team
- c) Visitation Team
- d) Musical Team
- e) Youth Empowerment Summit (YES) Team
- f) Widows and Orphans Care Team
- g) Drama Team
- h) Technical/ Media Team
MEMBERSHIP
The group has its members across all ages, various classes of professions who believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour…..
Wheel of Hope * *MEDICAL TEAM
In the course of this write up, we shall focus on our Free Medical Services (Matt25:34-36)
STRUCTURE
Our free medical services are structured with trained/ licensed health professionals and other paramedics. It is otherwise called mobile clinic/hospital which comprises of the following departments;
1) Medical department
2) Surgical department
3) Ophthalmologist/optometrist department
4) Nursing department
5) Laboratory department
6) Pharmarcy department
7) Counselling department
8) The protocol
THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
This is made up of licensed medical practitioners of various specialties that consult during our free medical services to bring health care to the community.
Our record has that in each of our outreach more than 350 Patients (beneficiaries) are being treated and drugs are being dispensed to each of them free of charge.
The medical team also sought out some surgical cases and refer them to the theatre for surgical department to handle.
THE SURGICAL DEPARTMENT
This is made up of licensed medical doctors who are specialized in surgeries.
The surgeries are usually done using a government or private hospital within the locality of the Outreach. It may interest you to know that our record has it that more than 150 patients benefit from our free medical surgery (minor & major) annually.
THE OPHTHALMOLOGY/ OPTOMETRIC UNIT
This unit is made up of trained and licensed doctors whose specialty is to take care of eyes. They handle minor eye diseases and minor refractive errors. They usually come along with already prepared eye glasses for the correction of common refractive errors and some eye drugs. All of these will be distributed to the beneficiaries after adequate testing. It is on record that more than 80 Patients (beneficiaries) were given eye glasses and/or drugs during our last outreach.
NURSING UNIT
This is made up of both licensed professional and auxilary nurses that are dispatched to assist in other various departments like medical, surgery, Pharmacy, vital signs etc. for easy flow of the free medicals.
PHARMACY UNIT
This unit is made up of pharmacists and other medics that are in charge of arranging & dispensing our free drugs to the patients as prescribed by the doctor.
LABORATORY UNIT
This unit is made up of laboratory scientists, technicians and other health workers within the group that help in carrying out various tests during the free medicals.
THE COUNSELLING UNIT
This unit which comprises of trained personnels is saddled with the responsibility of having one on one interactions with the beneficiaries. Here, the love of God is communicated to the beneficiaries.
THE PROTOCOL UNIT
This is made up of non-medical personnel that ensure free flow of Patients and items from one unit to the other during our free medical program.
NOTE: that more than 90% of G.E.O. medical team with its numerous activities are free voluntary workers who serve God with their professions.
OUR CHALLENGES
As a missionary who lives and works in the rural community for more than eight years now, I see patients die of many preventable and treatable diseases due to poverty and lack of proper medical care. It is because of the agony of many children who have been rendered fatherless and motherless, some women that lost their babies, and many poor people in sub-Saharan Africa that makes Wheel of Hope to incorporate free medical service to our outreaches. Some of our challenges are itemized as follows.
1). Insufficient drugs
The number of patients we see in each outreach usually overwhelm the quantity of the drugs that we can provide.
2). Lack of adequate medical, surgical and laboratory equipment
3). Inadequate funds to revive other units of the free medicals.
EQUIPMENTS / MATERIALS
The following equipment are what we need to carry out our free medical mobile clinic services more effectively;
a). Various drugs
b). Ambulances
c). Surgical equipment
d). Examination couches
e). Diathermy
f). Pulse oximetre
g). Oxygen Concentrator/ cylinder
h). Mobile tents
i). Hospital beds
k). Ultrasound scanners
l). Sphygmomanometers
m). Weighing scales
n). Transportation vans
o). Ophthalmology equipment: Toric Marker, pre-chopper, Spectacles(Contact lenses & glass), tonometer’s, etc.
LABORATORlES
1). Microscopes
2). Hematocrit centrifuges
3). Blood bags
4). Mindray
5). Laboratory kits (HIV, hepatitis, malaria, blood sugar, etc.)
And other miscellaneous equipment
NOTE: Currently, most of the medical equipment/materials we are using to carry out these free services are usually borrowed from available hospitals.