WEST AFRICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
West African Health Foundation(WAHF) is a not for profit, non governmental organization formed by a group of physicians and other professionals concerned about the inadequate healthcare in the West African sub region. The Foundation aims to promote health through Wellness Education and Disease Prevention through unrestricted, comprehensive medical and public health outreach interventions and educational programs.
About This Cause
West African Health Foundation(WAHF) has a mission to promote better standards of health and disease prevention, as well as the improvement of the nutritional status and welfare of the people, particularly women and children of the West African sub-region. This has been done through unrestricted community outreach programs such as:- 1. Health and wellness education This program aims to empower and teach individuals in the community to take Charge of their own health by preventing some diseases or illnesses before They occur. The health issues covered at these instructive seminars include: A. Blindness and vision loss prevention B. Maternal/ Reproductive and Child Health C. Infectious Diseases (Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, Ebola Virus Disease) D Sexually Transmitted Diseases E. Sanitation, Environmental Health, Personal Hygiene F. Injury Prevention G. Tobacco, Alcohol, Substance Abuse H. Immunization I. Nutrition J. Potable Water, Waste Management, Clean Energy (Biodiesel, Methane), Systems Resource recovery and Fertilizer 2. Medical Missions 3. Medical Equipment/Surgical Supplies Donation 4. WAHF'S Malaria Control Program The Malaria Control program was started as a pilot program about seven years ago in Juaben and the eleven surrounding villages in the Ashanti region in Ghana. A. WAHF has donated over 11,000 free long lasting insecticide treated bed-nets primarily to children under 5 years and pregnant women. 5. WAHF has, in addition instituted programs to control the mosquito vector population in this area by the use of Government approved chemicals for targeted environmental spraying and Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS). 6. The Foundation has also provided the communities with tools and implements such as as Wellington boots, wheel barrows ,rakes, brooms, brushes and shovels to de-silt clogged drains/gutters, drain stagnant pools of water, remove/drain empty containers, fill pot-holes and improve general environmental sanitation. 7. The communities are provided with life saving information on how to recognize the early symptoms and signs of malaria and access effective treatment of this dreadful and deadly disease. 8. The next phase of the Foundation's Malaria Control Program will be the introduction of home based care for the treatment of uncomplicated Malaria for children under 5 years of age together with Intermittent Preventive Treatment during pregnancy (IPTp) In our effort to sustain a community based implementation plan, the Foundation has built a partnership with community leaders, youth groups and local health providers. WAHF plans to sustain, monitor and evaluate key and important components of its program in the coming years collaborating with the established community infrastructure. In the event that an acute or chronic illness occurs, it is the Foundation's hope that a health facility is available to manage the problem competently, expeditiously and with compassion. WAHF has conducted yearly Medical Missions during which time different health screens such as Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Breast Cancer, as well as massive deworming are performed. The vision of WAHF is to establish a tertiary medical center of excellence for the West African sub-region, to conduct research into disease prevention and herbal medicine and provide support, education and faculty to clinics and rural communities. WAHF has collaborated with the Urban Design Lab of Columbia University who has delivered a design concept for a green hospital. The hospital will be 250 bed to be phased in three stages. The first phase is the construction of an an EYE INSTITUTE, to treat blindness caused by treatable conditions such as unmet refractive errors, glaucoma and cataract in these underserved and poor population. 1.1 Billion people have vision loss globally (WHO 2022). Ghana has only 95 Ophthalmologists serving a population of about 30 million people. Most of these ophthalmologists are concentrated in the urban areas. this leaves a large area of the rural sector with no access to good eye care. The location of the Eye Institute is at Juaben which is in the rural farming area in the Ashanti region. This was begun in December 2019 and we are now up to the tiling stage, after completing the roofing the ceiling in 2023 The project is at a critical stage where an amount of approximately $850,000 is needed to complete the construction. Every donation will go a long way towards the goal. Update July 2021- Roofing of the EYE INSTITUTE has been completed. Donations still needed to complete the project by the end of 2021. WAHF hopes to start operation by early 2022. Update December 2022- During 2022 the first phase of the plumbing work, electrical work, perimeter wall around the entire 2 acre lot was completed. The second and third phases of the electricals, plumbing, tiling of the entire hospital, landscaping all need to be done among other things. Update 2023 Second and third phases of the plumbing works and electrical works completed. Ceiling of entire facility completed Next stages are tiling of the whole facility. third stages of plumbing and electrical work Landscaping and other items. In addition WAHF needs to procure state of the art equipment for the hospital including the two operating theaters. furniture, hiring and training of top level staff as well as working capital. A total of $2.5 million is needed to accomplish this for the Eye Institute to be operational by September 2024. WAHF would like you to partner with us to provide the gift of sight to the underserved people.