The first step toward reducing stress is learning what your triggers are. “If you know what pushes your buttons, then avoid it….
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It is National Women’s Health Week, and there is an urgent need to make their health a priority in Nigeria…
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Consuming healthy foods can boost how you feel on the inside and create a positive mood on the outside.
Save A Child FundBy GEANCOFoundation Life-transforming Surgery for Indigent Children Donate Physical activity is an inclusive term that refers to any expenditure of energy brought about by bodily movement via the skeletal muscles. The distinguishing characteristic of exercise is that it is a structured activity specifically planned to develop and maintain physical fitness. Exercise is
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Save A Child Fund By GEANCO Foundation Life-transforming Surgery for Indigent Children Donate Sleep contrasts with wakefulness, in which state there is an enhanced potential for sensitivity and efficient responsiveness to external stimuli. Sleep is a normal, reversible, recurrent state of reduced responsiveness to external stimulation that is accompanied by complex and predictable changes in
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It is World Health Day, everyone!This year’s theme, “Health for All”, serves as a reminder that healthcare should be accessible to everyone, regardless of their social or economic status. This is especially important for underserved women and children in Africa who continue to face significant barriers to accessing quality healthcare.As a body passionate about maternal healthcare in
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Our medical missions usually aim to provide quality healthcare to those living in suburban areas, especially the underserved. Following inception and establishment, our modular clinics have expanded their services to offer even more value to patients and families within the communities, before and after the medical missions. Our modular clinics stand out as a beacon of hope and lifeline for communities, proof that quality healthcare can be accessed despite location or socio-economic status. Its innovative approach and use of
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In Nigeria, especially in the suburban areas, there are a lot of people, both young and old, living with a hernia, diseases of the appendix, gall bladder, and even the ovary. It has been their sad reality for years, not because the pain is mild or the protrusion is a fashion statement, but because there
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We had been planning this internship program for three months now. The goal of the internship is to build a pool of capable people for projects and operations management in the healthcare programs we run. This ensures we have the manpower to grow, the interns can use their skills to get good jobs and make
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Held Event – The TBA Support Program It displeased our field staff in Enugu (Nigeria) to know that many pregnant mothers still left the primary health centre we had equipped, for the homes of traditional birth attendants. We had done much to reposition the health centre, yet some women wouldn’t go there. So, our staff
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Paschaline, Sam and Amaka have always wondered why the pregnant women who they have been trying to help access quality delivery services at the primary health center (PHC), keep evading the health centers for the homes of the traditional birth attendants (TBA). To Paschaline and her friends working for GEANCO on the Anemia control program,
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It has been an exciting couple of months at our modular clinics. Don’t be quick to forget that the modular clinic initiative was born out of the desire to proffer health care to underserved women and children in communities. We have undoubtedly made appreciable progress with integrating modern conventional maternity practice with a traditional institution.
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The failure to initiate and sustain breathing at birth has caused about three-quarters of all intrapartum related deaths in rural areas, with a high risk of neonatal encephalopathy in babies that survive. In response, GEANCO Foundation conducted an intensive 2-day training for TBAs and their trainees in a bid to bridge this knowledge gap. This
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I stayed in an enclosed space for a good number of months, no one came around to disturb my peace and my mother ensured all the necessary nutrients needed for me to thrive was available. From month to month, I got bigger and healthier in there and a growing consciousness made me understand I’d be
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