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Stroke and related cardiovascular diseases claim a significant number of lives in West Africa, accounting for a growing burden of mortality and disability in the region.

For example, Stroke and related diseases claim more than 56 lives every day in this part of the world — we need your support now more than ever. Current data reveals that about 133 million people cannot afford neurointerventional services in Nigeria, resulting in premature deaths. West Africa Stroke Initiative (WASI) partners with communities, governmental organizations, private companies, and academic institutions to facilitate access to stroke care and build local capacity through specialized training.

Co-founder and CEO, Dr. Okafo, and a team of medical providers, including neurosurgeons, radiologists, neurologists, nurses, and technologists from across the world, will provide financially accessible neurointervention treatments to indigents in West African countries. West African Stroke Initiative is a qualified 501(c)(3) and your donation is tax-deductible.

 

Give something meaningful by donating to help save lives. Your gift today will go as far to help fund lifesaving neurointerventional treatment, empower people to know and control their risks for stroke with education and prevention information, fund the training of local neurosurgeons, and advocate to ensure everyone has equal access to care.

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Treatment

With your generous financial support, we can save lives and improve the quality of life of persons experiencing stroke destined to untimely death or significant disability without stroke treatment.
Below are the average costs of providing some needed services as a guide.

$500

can pay off a preoperative noninvasive diagnostic workup for a patient

$330

Cath lab fee for a patient

$500

can pay for blood and blood products

$500

can pay the cost of complex major anesthesia for a patient

$100

can pay for High Dependency Unit stay for a day

$120

can pay for an Intensive Care Unit for a day

$5000

can pay for neurointervention

$800

for a ward professional fee

$280

can pay for a single room for 5 days for a patient

$5000 - $20,000

Special consumables vary from $5000 to $20,000 for neurointervention

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Training

WASI is also seeking funding to cover costs related to fellowship training for local neurosurgeons in vascular neurointervention fellowships.

 

These include instructor honorarium for didactic training, curriculum development, materials fees, travel expenses for participants to hands-on training meetings, and stipend for fellows. We plan to train a minimum of three fellows per year.

 

The annual cost of training a fellow is approximately $ 5,000 per fellow.

You can pay by electronic bank transfer or by check payable

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