Riding For Health
Riders now work with a number of government, private
and non-government organisations to ensure that the best
possible health care is being delivered through the most re-
liable means.
Although pharmaceutical and basic healthcare
practioning is key to how Riders works, the organisation has
now 'branched' into other vital areas of healthcare, including;
refrigerated transport and ambulances, both four and three-
wheeled, yes there's motorcycle and sidecar ambulances.
The figures associated with Riders is astounding, and con-
tinues to impress every year, they're so astounding that all are
impossible to list however consider this:
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The child immunisation rate in Gambia is now at 97%.
No immunisation clinic is cancelled due to lack of
transport.
Prior to Riders, testing for HIV required a wait of over
three months before the results were known, it's now
just six days.
Suspected cases of the Ebola virus in Liberia are tested
as a priority sample, virtually eliminating the chance
of another Ebola breakout.
An average of 78% of all samples for testing now reach
laboratories within 24 hours, prior to Riders the figure
was greater than 75% took longer than 24 hours.
Riders has a replication team ready to dispatch and
setup operating teams anywhere in Africa with almost
immediate affect, this is potentially something that
could be deployed across the globe.
TRAVERSE
The shear scale of Riders is amazing and that's attribut-
ed to the people who are Riders; the people of Africa. It's
hard not to want to mention everyone who works with
Riders, unfortunately it would take volumes. An example
is Sarah Meco Layweh, the only female sample transporter
in Liberia, in fact she is the head transporter in her region
and has a team of men working with her.
Sarah is keen to get other women working with her to
make a difference, it's her love of the people and riding a
motorcycle that keeps her going.
"I enjoy doing this work, I can sometimes cover 290km
from Sanniquellie to Zudru Clinic In Tappita district be-
tween Grand Gedeh and Nimba County," she says. Sarah
is an inspiration to not only Riders, but to all riders.
If you'd like a greater understanding of the work that
Riders does visit www.ridersintl.org
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