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Beyond Bounds Health Initiative -BBHI, Kuje (2025)

01/01/2025

BBHI wish you a healthier, wealthier and prosperous New Year 🎊🎊

Let's grow together 🤩🤩

29/10/2024

BBHI for the Less Privileged Appreciate her esteemed partners

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you who participated in and supported our recent medical outreach program. Your presence and enthusiasm made this event a resounding success!
Thank You

- To our dedicated team of healthcare professionals who selflessly provided medical services and expertise.
- To our volunteers who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure the smooth operation of the outreach.
- To our community leaders and partners who helped mobilize resources and promote the event.
- To the individuals and organizations who donated resources, supplies, and funding.
Together, We Made a Difference.

Our Achievements
- Several individuals received free medical consultations and treatments.
- And patients benefited from our specialized services.
- Countless lives were impacted through health education and awareness.

Your Support Matters
Your contributions have helped bridge the healthcare gap, providing access to essential medical services for those in need. We are grateful for your trust and confidence in our organization.

Looking Forward, we pledge to continue providing quality healthcare services and outreach programs, addressing the evolving needs of communities. Your ongoing support will enable us to expand our reach and impact even more lives.
Thank You Again!

For your kindness, generosity, and commitment to improving healthcare.

The Beyond Bound Health Initiative for the Less Privileged
beyondbounds2018@gmail.com
+234(0)7084814237

23/10/2024

Join us in making a difference in the lives of those in need!✨🌏🏅

Volunteering is open

14/10/2024

Burnout -a sneaky energy of life!♋

Burnout is a chronic state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by prolonged stress, overwork, and lack of balance in life.

Symptoms:
1. Chronic fatigue and lethargy
2. Loss of motivation and interest
3. Reduced productivity and performance
4. Increased cynicism and detachment
5. Physical symptoms (headaches, insomnia, digestive issues)
6. Emotional reactivity and irritability
7. Lack of creativity and innovation
8. Feelings of hopelessness and despair

Causes:
1. Chronic stress and pressure
2. Lack of control and autonomy
3. Poor work-life balance
4. Unclear expectations and conflicting values
5. Lack of social support and connection
6. Perfectionism and self-criticism
7. Trauma and adverse experiences

Consequences:
1. Decreased job satisfaction and performance
2. Strained relationships and social isolation
3. Compromised physical and mental health
4. Increased absenteeism and turnover
5. Reduced creativity and innovation
6. Decreased overall well-being

Prevention and Management:
1. Prioritize self-care and relaxation
2. Set realistic goals and boundaries
3. Seek social support and connection
4. Engage in activities promoting joy and fulfillment
5. Practice mindfulness and stress management
6. Take regular breaks and vacations
7. Re-evaluate priorities and values

Support:
1. Talk to a mental health professional
2. Join a support group
3. Share concerns with a trusted friend or family member
4. Seek organizational support

Remember, burnout is a signal for change. Take care of yourself.

Have productive week ahead.
BBHI for the world 🌎🌍

17/09/2024

World Patient Safety Day (WPSD) 2024

World Patient Safety Day (WPSD), one of WHO’s global public health initiatives, continues its vital mission in 2024. Established in 2019 by the Seventy-second World Health Assembly through the adoption of resolution WHA72.6 – “Global action on patient safety” – this day is observed annually on 17 September. It is a pivotal event to promote global health and safety, firmly grounded in the core medical principle: “first, do no harm.” The day aims to raise public awareness, enhance global understanding, and foster solidarity and action among Member States to promote patient safety. Each year, a new theme is chosen to address a critical area in patient safety that demands urgent attention.

WPSD 2024 Theme

For 2024, the theme is “Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety,” recognizing the essential role of accurate and timely diagnoses in ensuring patient safety. The resolution WHA72.6 and the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030 underscore the importance of safeguarding diagnostic processes. The global action plan encourages countries to adopt strategies that minimize diagnostic errors. These errors, which can stem from a combination of cognitive and systemic factors affecting the recognition, interpretation, and communication of patients’ symptoms and test results, are a significant concern. A diagnostic error involves failing to provide a correct and timely explanation of a patient’s health issue, including delayed, incorrect, or missed diagnoses, or failing to communicate the diagnosis to the patient. Such errors account for nearly 16% of preventable harm in health systems, with most adults likely to encounter at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime. Thus, improving diagnostic processes is imperative.
Under the slogan “Get it Right, Make it Safe!”, concerted efforts are sought to significantly reduce diagnostic errors through multifaceted interventions based on systems thinking, human factors, and active engagement of patients, their families, health workers, and health care leaders. These interventions include thorough patient history documentation, comprehensive clinical examinations, improved access to diagnostic tests, methods to measure and learn from diagnostic errors, and technology-based solutions.

Objectives of World Patient Safety Day 2024

1. Raise Global Awareness: Highlight the impact of diagnostic errors on patient harm and emphasize the critical role of accurate, timely, and safe diagnoses in enhancing patient safety.

2. Promote Diagnostic Safety: Integrate diagnostic safety into patient safety policies and clinical practices at all levels of health care, in alignment with the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030.

3. Foster Collaboration: Encourage cooperation among policymakers, health care leaders, health workers, patient organizations, and other stakeholders to advance accurate, timely, and safe diagnoses.

4. Empower Patients and Families: Enable patients and their families to actively engage with health workers and health care leaders to improve diagnostic processes.
Working Together for Safer Health Care
Together, let’s make health care safer for everyone

Beyond bounds Health Initiative for the Less Privileged (BBHI)

04/09/2024

Effective Altruism (EA) is a philosophy and social movement that aims to maximize the positive impact of charitable donations and actions. It involves using reason, evidence, and science to determine the most effective ways to benefit others and make a positive difference in the world.

Key principles:

1. Cause-neutrality
2. Cost-effectiveness
3. Evidence-based decision-making
4. Transparency and accountability
5. Continuous learning and improvement

EA focuses on:

1. Global health
2. Animal welfare
3. Existential risks
4. Education and economic empowerment

We all practice EA when we:

1. Donate to evidence-backed charities
2. Volunteer time and skills effectively
3. Advocate for policies with high impact
4. Reduce personal consumption and waste
5. Support research and development of effective solutions

Effective Altruism is about making a meaningful difference in the lives of others through informed and strategic actions.

This year's summit shall be an event that aims to bring together individuals who are thinking carefully about some of the world's biggest problems, taking impactful action to solve them, or exploring ways to do so.

I will be leveraging on this summit to become a better Benevolent Humanist

28/08/2024

AN INSIGHT INTO MPOX (MONKEYPOX) DISEASE

Mpox

The upsurge in mpox in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a growing number of African countries in Africa constitute a public health emergency of international concern.

Nigeria has a total of 39 confirmed cases with zero deaths recorded across the 36 states plus the F.C.T according to the latest reports from NCDC.

Mpox is an illness caused by the monkeypox virus. It is a viral infection which can spread between people, mainly through close contact, and occasionally from the environment to people via things and surfaces that have been touched by a person with mpox. In settings where the monkeypox virus is present among some wild animals, it can also be transmitted from infected animals to people who have contact with them.

Signs and Symptoms

Mpox can cause a range of signs and symptoms. While some people have less severe symptoms, others may develop more serious illness and need care in a health facility.
Common symptoms of mpox include a rash which may last for 2–4 weeks. This may start with, or be followed by, fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, low energy (tiredness) and swollen glands (lymph nodes).

Protection?

To protect yourself and others against mpox, know the signs and symptoms, how the virus spreads, what to do if you get ill-contact/report all cases to the nearest health facility.

Vaccines?

Yes. There are vaccines recommended by WHO for use against mpox. In fact, Nigeria has become the first African country to receive10,000 doses of Mpox vaccines to combat the outbreak

Treatment: Contact your physician

Beyond Bounds Health Initiative for the Less Privileged

20/08/2024

Bursting the myths about cervical cancer

But what is cervical cancer?
It is a tumor (cancer) of the lower part of the womb (cervix) that is caused by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Making it the only cancer with a known and preventive measure.

Fact: About 600,000 new cases and over 300,000 deaths attributable to cervical cancer each year.
rate is high due to late presentation.
#70-80% of cervical cancer cases present in late stages making treatment very challenging and difficult in our setting
commonest cancer in women world wide
Nigeria: commonest female ge***al tract cancer

*Risk factors
✓Age-usually 35 to 60 years
✓Women particularly in HIV infected
✓Multiple s*x-partners-risk of HIV/✓HPV infection and persistence
✓Male s*xual partner with multiple s*xual partner
✓Early s*x debut
✓Smoking
✓Low socioeconomic status
✓High number of pregnancies in women
✓Long term use of oral contraceptives
✓Previous history of STI and pelvic inflammatory disease

Signs and symptoms
×Bleeding after s*xual in*******se
×Foul smelling va**nal discharge
×Weight loss
×Bleeding between me**es
×Weakness due to loss of blood
×Urinating with blood
×Leakage of urine
×Signs: enlarged and irregular cervix
×Bleeding cervical mass
×Masses involving the va**na

Preventive measures
~Abstinence
~Reproductive health education
~Avoidance of early s*xual exposure
~Avoidance of risky s*xual behaviour
~Regular screening: PAP smear screening for all women of reproductive age
~Vaccination with HPV vaccines

Vaccines
Vaccines are administered after Pap smear for those who have had s*xual in*******se otherwise for the virgins, ages 9-14 years
9: 9-valent HPV vaccine
4: quadrivalent HPV vaccine
2: bivalent HPV vaccine
: These vaccines are not new but have been in existence since 2006 and are widely used even in the western countries. They are not used to control infertility and population in Africa!!

Myth busters about Cervical cancer
◦Myth: It is the white man’s way of controlling our population
◦Fact: Spurious! Unfortunately we are doing a better job about this
◦Myth: I don’t need to get screened because cervical cancer doesn’t run in my family
◦Fact: It is transmitted by HPV. Lack of family history is not a reason to have it
◦Myth: I don’t need to get screened because I don’t have symptoms
◦Fact: The screening looks for abnormalities in healthy people. You don’t have to wait until you are experiencing symptoms as cervical cancer can be asymptomatic
◦Myth: Cervical cancer cannot be prevented
◦Fact: Cervical cancer can be prevented with vaccination and regular screening tests
◦Myth: Women who have received Pap smear do not need vaccination
◦Fact: Regular Pap smear is still necessary for women who received HPV vaccine
◦Myth: It causes infertility
◦Fact: There is no evidence to support this claim. HPV vaccine has been studied extensively and there is no link between infertility and the vaccine
◦Myth: It causes premature menopause
◦Fact: There is no scientific or experiential data to support such claim. Menopause arise as a result of decline in reproductive hormones when a woman reaches certain age

GREAT CHALLENGE TO HPV VACCINE UPTAKE
INFORMATION: (misinformation, over/under-information, uninformed and unverified information-forwarded whatsApp massages)
Culture
Religion
Politics

Call to Action: Consult relevant authorities if in doubt. Get screened. Get vaccinated!

12/08/2024

Did you know:

The term Diabetes mellitus (DM) describes a chronic metabolic disorder of multiple etiology characterized by hyperglycemia (increase in blood sugar) with disturbances of carbohydrates, fats and protein metabolism resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action or both? Yeah...

in other words, it means failure of insulin secretion, it's action or both leads to rise in blood glucose and other metabolic changes if uncorrected will cause complications.

Let's go below the belt 😁

Factors contributing to hyperglycemia include:
1. reduced insulin secretion
2. decreased glucose utilization
3. increased glucose production

Also know that:
DM is a leading cause of end stage renal disease, non traumatic lower extremity amputations and adult blindness. it also predisposes to cardiovascular diseases.
with an increasing incidence worldwide, it will likely be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the future.

So it's risk factors are:
1. family history of DM
2. Obesity
3. physical inactivity
4. race/ethnicity (blacks, African American, Latinos, Native American, Asians)
5. previously identified with impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance
6. Hypertension
polycystic ovarian syndrome
7. Macrosomic (large) babies

And classifications of DM are:
1. Type 1 DM
2. Type 2 DM
3. Gestational DM
4. Drug induced DM
5. Genetic defects of beta cell function in pancreas
6. Endocrine diseases

Don't forget the symptoms which are:
1. polyuria ( increased urination)
2. polydipsia (increased water intake)
3. polyphagia (increased eating)
4. weight loss
5. body weakness
6. blurred vision
7. frequent infection (UTI mostly in females)
8. slow healing of injury after mild trauma.

If you've got any of these symptoms go for testing in a laboratory or hospital and consult your physician.
And for those with DM: stick to your medical advice and drug regimen.

07/08/2024

Day 7
Round up of our campaign
Thank you for staying through
We hope you've been enlighten and strengthened with the requisite knowledge to be an ambassador of Breastfeeding
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06/08/2024

: Day 6
Courtesy: Beyond Bounds Health Initiative for the Less Privileged ✨

To our young morhers: Know and do to stay Healthy

05/08/2024

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