APC CARES Wing
Health Wing
In too many Nigerian communities, the nearest clinic is a long and costly journey away, and illnesses that could be caught early are found too late. The CARES Health Wing brings care, screening, and health knowledge to the doorstep of the people who need it most.
Who we serve: Rural and peri-urban households, pregnant women and nursing mothers, children under five, the elderly, and people living with chronic conditions who rarely see a health worker.
The Challenge
Across our wards, families still make hard choices between earning a day's income and going to the clinic. Mothers deliver without skilled help. Blood pressure, diabetes, and eye problems go unnoticed for years because no one ever checked.
Primary healthcare centers exist in many communities, but many are under-equipped and underused. Health insurance schemes are available, yet many eligible families do not know how to enroll.
The Health Wing exists to close this gap. We don't replace the health system; we connect people to it, strengthen it through partnership, and ensure no community is left out of the Renewed Hope promise of better healthcare.
Our Approach
The Health Wing does not set up parallel clinics. It works through existing primary healthcare centers and qualified professionals, adding outreach, enrolment support, and community awareness where the system is thin. Every outreach ends with a referral pathway, so we follow up with every screened person.
Flagship Programme
CARES Health Days: a quarterly free medical outreach in each pilot state, combining screening, basic treatment, eye care, health insurance enrolment, and health talks in local languages, with every referral logged and followed up within 30 days.
Programmes
Community Medical Outreaches: Free medical days that bring doctors, nurses, and pharmacists into communities for consultation, basic treatment, and referral.
Screening & Early Detection: Checks for blood pressure, blood sugar, eyesight, and other common conditions, so illness is caught while it can still be managed.
Health Insurance Enrolment: Hands-on help for families to register for health insurance schemes and understand the care they are entitled to.
Mother & Child Health: Awareness on antenatal care, safe delivery, immunization, and nutrition, working with local health workers and midwives.
Primary Healthcare Partnerships: Working with primary healthcare centers to strengthen services, improve patient turnout, and advocate for equipment and staffing.
Health Education: Community talks on prevention, hygiene, sanitation, clean water, and healthy living, delivered in local languages.
Key Partners
State Ministries of Health, State Primary Healthcare Boards, NPHCDA, NHIA and state health insurance agencies, professional associations (NMA, NANNM, PSN), hospitals, and pharmaceutical CSR programs.
Safeguards
Clinical safety: only licensed professionals treat or prescribe. Drug quality: medicines sourced only from registered suppliers. Patient privacy: health data kept confidential and used only for follow-up and anonymized reporting.
The Change We Seek
Picture a market woman in a small town who learns at a CARES outreach that her blood pressure is dangerously high. She is referred to the nearby health center, enrolled in a health insurance scheme, and returns to her stall with treatment and knowledge she did not have that morning. That is the change we are working for, one community at a time.
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