Kimondo Jiggers Campaign – Trans-Nzoia
INTRODUCTION
- The campaign took place in Kimondo community unit of Endebess sub county Trans-nzoia county on the 6, 7, and 8th February 2021.
- the unit has an approximate catchment population of 6298 ,8 villages with 821 households.
- In this area, people have small pieces of land on which they grow maize and beans for consumption, and some keep domestic animals in small quantities e.g. chicken, sheep and cattle.
- Our target population included community members and school children covering 3 schools within the C.U
1ST CAMPAIGN
- In 2020 Oct /November we did a small jigger campaign in this same community which had a target of 118 but we had a turn up of 132 indicating a greater need than we expected. This necessitated another campaign to ensure the community has fully benefited in the eradication of jiggers.
- With the help of volunteers, field officer and the area CHEW we were able to gather and verify data on the number of jiggers’ cases in the affected villages and planned for another campaign.
Infected Sample Cases
Training of Beneficiaries
A) VOLUNTEERS
- This involved the sensitization of 30 community volunters and 18 village elders .
- SENSITIZATION TOPICS:
- On the causes of jiggers infestation
- Treatment and management of jigger’s cases
- Prevention and control, disinfection of houses infected by jiggers causing microorganisms
- Practical demonstration on removal of jiggers and house disinfection.
- The training was aimed at empowering the volunteers on necessary skills useful during and after the campaign since they had a responsibility to follow up all treated cases. Either the training was to empower those who did not know how to treat jiggers to be able to do so.
- B) COMMUNITY MEMBERS/BENEFICIARIES
- We sensitized a total of 295 community members that were going to benefit from this campaign in one way or the other from all the affected villages.
- TOPICS OF SENSITIZATION:
- On the causes of jiggers infestation
- Jiggers infestation as a health issue and not a curse/myth
- Prevention and control, disinfection of houses infected by jiggers causing microorganisms
- practical demonstration on removal of jiggers and house disinfection.
Treatment and Shoes Distribution
- The treatment exercise took 3 days where all the jiggers infested cases were attended to at the three designated treatment points.
- A total of 514 cases were treated within the 3 days from all the sites.
- Shoes and other resources were distributed as follows:
- 514 Cases treated for three consecutive days.
- A total of 514 cases received shoes :405 during treatment campaign and 109 during the beef up exercise.
- 201 households received a sachet of 30g Omo detergent, and 1 or 2 containers of sevin dust for disinfecting their houses.
- 52 houses were fumigated by spraying during the beef up exercise, and classrooms in basale and Nalulingo primary schools
Before and After Samples
