Lots of of individuals in Nigeria had been screened for hypertension between Might and August 2023 as a part of a marketing campaign which is being delivered with the assistance of volunteers educated by the ISH.
The Know Your Numbers Marketing campaign (KYN) – kicked off by the Nigerian Cardiac Society in Abuja on 17th Might 2023, World Hypertension Day – is working to improve consciousness of blood strain measurement amongst communities throughout Nigeria, and to scale back the prevalence of hypertension within the nation.
College students who had been a part of the Hypertension College for Non-Doctor Well being Staff, delivered by the ISH Africa Regional Advisory Group, are a part of the two-year KYN marketing campaign as ambassadors. On this means their instructional coaching helps them to make an actual distinction ‘on the bottom’.
The KYN marketing campaign, which is nonetheless in its first quarter of implementation, and which is sponsored by OMRON, has seen KYN ambassadors educated on find out how to measure blood strain, with round 200 blood strain screens supplied.
These ambassadors have been elevating consciousness of hypertension and measuring blood strain in public locations like markets, conventional palaces, buying malls, native communities, non secular centres, and airports.
As of August 2023, stories from KYN ambassadors confirmed that the speed of BP screening within the North Central, South-South, and South-East zones of Nigeria stand at 132, 105, and 383 folks respectively.