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Solution Overview & Team Lead Details

What is the name of your solution?

Pacific Mobile Reproductive Health Clinic

Provide a one-line summary of your solution.

Creating sexual reproductive healthcare, point of care laboratory value for young women and girls in Iju Ishaga, Abule Egba, Ogba, Agbado, Ajuwon, Lambe and Akute communities of Lagos State Nigeria

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What specific problem are you solving?

Pacific Mobile Reproductive Health Clinic is looking to improve the SRHR outcomes of young people and address root cause barriers to SRHR care. The following social determinants of sexual and health rights problems are explored in Iju Ishaga, Abule Egba, Ogba, Agbado, Ajuwon, Lambe and Akute communities of Lagos State Nigeria where:

There is high out-of-pocket spending on healthcare
Young girls are too quick to have children
There is uneven distribution of health facilities in favor of urban areas
Accurate information about young women bodies, sexuality, communication in relationships, contraceptives, pregnancy and other issues are not readily available
Unmarried young women are confused either to avoid pregnancy or to begin childbearing
Adolescent girls are expunged from school due to unplanned pregnancy
High level of religious bigotry and stigmatization
Increase in poverty and illiteracy.

Sluggish growth, low human capital, labor market weaknesses, and exposure to shocks are holding Nigeria’s poverty reduction back says a new World Bank report “A Better Future for All Nigerians: Nigeria Poverty Assessment 2022”. The report represents the culmination of the World Bank’s engagement on poverty and inequality-relevant data and analytics in Nigeria in the past two years. It draws primarily on the 2018/19 Nigerian Living Standards Survey (NLSS), which provided Nigeria’s first official poverty numbers in almost a decade, as well as the Nigeria COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey (NLPS). These surveys were implemented by Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in collaboration with the World Bank.

According to the report, which brings together the latest evidence on the profile and drivers of poverty in Nigeria, as many as 4 in 10 Nigerians live below the national poverty line. Many Nigerians – especially in the country’s north – also lack education and access to basic infrastructure, such as electricity, safe drinking water, and improved sanitation. The report further notes that jobs do not translate Nigerians’ hard work into an exit from poverty, as most workers are engaged in small-scale household farm and non-farm enterprises; just 17 percent of Nigerian workers hold the wage jobs best able to lift people out of poverty.

According to the Lagos State Government Population Board, about 900,000 people live within the area of our concentration of which 70% are young people below 35 years; 40% of which are young women and girls. We believe our project will positively reach the deepest areas within the environment of Iju Ishaga, Abule Egba, Ogba, Agbado, Ajuwon, Lambe and Akute communities of Lagos State Nigeria, with supply of SRHR information/outreaches, supply of drugs, and advocacy of sexual rights.

What is your solution?

Pacific Mobile Reproductive Health Clinic provides affordable mobile sexual reproductive healthcare information to women and girls with in-built point-of-care laboratory van to the population in Iju Ishaga, Abule Egba, Ogba,, Agbado, Ajuwon, Lambe and Akute communities of Lagos State Nigeria with a go-getter app. The app, which is a key factor to making our service available, integrates with a user-friendly interface and easily understood information to navigate and get in touch. The product app does not only serve the population within our jurisdiction, rather it provides availability for anyone that wishes to get along with us from any location. The app features a bio data, patients past & background information, WhatsApp enabled video call, among others.

Alongside our EMR patient application, an application will also run for the Mobile Clinic in order to ensure articulated transparency and ease of access to sexual & reproductive health & rights information for the young women & girls. The web application will be web3 based thereby creating value for users to access PMRHC coins to use for further transactional premium accessibility. We trust to achieve this in near future.

Pacific Mobile Reproductive Health Clinic penetrates communities in Iju Ishaga, Abule Egba, Ogba, Agbado, Ajuwon, Lambe and Akute communities of Lagos State Nigeria to provide first-hand information of SRHR to young women, treat, diagnose women and adolescent girls at little cost through community mobilization, patient satisfaction survey, among others activities.

Pacific Mobile Reproductive Health Clinic will innovatively use Quality Improvement Approach to measure the viability, efficiency and effectiveness of services for planning and patient care with solar energy to power van laboratory equipment for sustainability. Our service will also be integrated with a user app. We have been providing SRHR service to vulnerable young women and girls within our region in past years. We believe getting on with 4HerPowerChallenge will advance our reach and availability to the young women and girls in rural communities around Lagos & Ogun states of Nigeria.

Pacific Mobile Reproductive Health Clinic will build equity by addressing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights gaps in community healthcare. It will be proactive by adapting and responding to new patient needs among the young women and girls through SRHR promotion to improve their sexual health behaviors. It is going to be uniquely transparent in providing program information to stakeholders to ensure ownership of service delivery at all levels.

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Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Pacific Mobile Reproductive Health Clinic target population is young women and girls in Iju Ishaga, Abule Egba, Ogba, Agbado, Ajuwon, Lambe and Akute communities of Lagos State Nigeria. In these communities, the young women and girls are too quick to have children due to uneven distribution of health facilities in favor of urban areas, lack of education, poor roads, among others. In the locality, accurate information about the young women bodies, sexuality, and communication in relationships, contraceptives, pregnancy and other issues are not readily available. They are short on medical consultation, medical visits, and medical supplies. Unmarried young women within the areas are consistently confused either to avoid pregnancy or to begin childbearing, and adolescent girls are expunged from school due to unplanned pregnancy.

The young women and girls within Iju Ishaga, Abule Egba, Ogba, Agbado, Ajuwon, Lambe and Akute communities of Lagos State Nigeria makes up about 35% of the community population. We identified there is need for regular affordable mobile quality healthcare for the vulnerable thereby increasing their access to sexual information benefits.

Pacific Mobile Reproductive Health Clinic will address all these issues within the jurisdiction of the communities, through community mobilization, special screening campaigns, patient satisfaction survey, and referral to our hospital and nearby hospitals, tele-health, and partnerships with concerned stakeholders.

With our existing EMR patient app, we will magnify the mobile clinic technology of WhatsApp alongside to deliver productive output preference.

How are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?

Our team's mailing address identifies within the environment in Iju, Agbado, Ajuwon, Lambe and Akute communities of Lagos State Nigeria. We have ensured a successful scale of medical application through our parent company of Pacific hospital. A department that resonates with sexual and reproductive health and rights for young women and girls was carved out for us to ensure maximum productivity and deliverables.

The team lead and team members are all natives of the targeted surrounding communities. As natives, we surveyed and perfected the realistic issues within our country particularly within the community which we live in. As matters relate to women who are the primary parent that nurtures their children, we concluded that advocating for better livelihood and else esteem among the young women and girls will relatively add positively to the society which we live in.

Our findings, sightseeing, and passion hence brought us closer to make adequate information available for young women and girls at the teenage stage of their lives. With our existing EMR patient app, we will magnify the mobile clinic technology alongside to deliver productive output preference.

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Improve the SRH outcomes of young people and address root cause barriers to SRHR care.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Lagos, Nigeria

In what country is your solution team headquartered?

Nigeria

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Growth: An organization with an established product, service, or business model that is rolled out in one or more communities

How many people does your solution currently serve?

Pacific Mobile Reproductive Health Clinic is a product of Pacific Hospital.

About 200 existing and new patients visit our clinic every week.

About 100 new patients are included on our clinic EMR every week.

About 2700 patients are successfully registered on our EMR.

About 40 laboratory procedures successfully caried out.

About 750,000 Nigeria Naira done in finance.

About 11,000 patients are prospectively identified with our clinic.

Pacific hospital is a standard licensed and certified service provider, located in Lagos state, sharing border with Ogun state of Nigeria. The hospital medical services include Surgery, Specialist Medical Clinics, Fertility Services, Family Planning, Laboratory, Imagine Services: Ultrasound / ECG, Ambulance Services, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics & Anesthesiology.

Pacific hospital was registered with the Lagos State Ministry of Health in 2002, and began operations immediately with qualified professionals including technicians, physical therapists, and health and non health workers to man various operational positions. Pacific hospital became incorporated as a Limited Liability Company with Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission in 2013.

Pacific hospital is fully EMR operated with little or no paper presence. The operational building is purpose built, equipped with modern medical equipment and administrative tools. Currently, the hospital has 4 general wards with 6 bed spaces, 8 private wards, 2 emergency wards, obstetric 1st and 2nd stage wards , and 2 delivery suits. The hospital has a visiting lounge, rooms/offices for staff (doctors and paramedic staff) inclusive.

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?

Tobi Itogbe