DEC 12, 2018 CLINIC
Hundreds of families benefited from Give Amore’s third Jigger clinic held in conjunction with the Cornerstone outreach ministry. Among the beneficiaries were children, middle aged adults and the elderly Divided into four teams, the jigger clinic team (comprising of volunteer resident medics, community volunteers and the Give Amore team) charged in different directions only that this time they favored door to door visits to the severely affected victims to communal gatherings we are used to.
Almost all of the target population was disinfected except for an elderly woman who passed away from jigger related complications minutes before we got to her. Despite this campaign being the hardest to watch, many hands and feet were rid of this vicious parasite with a record high of over five hundred jiggers removed from the foot of a 101 years old man, this being the highest figure of jiggers removed from a single foot ever since the campaign begun.
So far, two deaths courtesy of jiggers are documented in our books but despite all the hardships and the most traumatizing sights that come tagged to the exercise, your contribution is going a long way in giving a larger population of western Kenya another chance at a life of wellness.
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DECEMBER 12, 2019 UPDATE
We returned to this village to distribute gifts to the old man suffering extreme cases of jiggers.