Happy Friday! The Ukweli team started the day going to a Peripheral Health Unit. First, we visited Masangbo, a Community Health Clinic where we introduced our test strip to several nurses. We were joined by the Safe Motherhood Documentary and Sickle Cell teams.
While the other teams were building relations with the clinicians, we had the opportunity to take some great action shots of Hassan screening a pregnant woman with our strip! Hassan explained to the woman about the importance of getting screened early and often. He obtained informed consent and approval from the Nurse on duty. Watching Hassan do this allowed us to better gauge our training and messaging protocols before we implement our venture.
These pictures depict Hassan explaining our test strips, obtaining consent, collecting data, and reading the strip.
Back at World Hope International, we worked hard to iron out the kinks in our operations plan. Naakesh, Zach, and Rohan focused on training, messaging, and data collection. While Cassidy, Sage, and Jordan worked on finances and a 3-pager that concisely summarizes our venture. Tomorrow, we plan to double and triple check our work and begin training! We cannot wait to officially be up and running!
This week has been extremely challenging to say the least, but we could really feel the excitement in the air today. Between Hassan networking and using our strips, to getting the final pieces of our venture together we are extremely excited to move forward. See you tomorrow.