Helping patients with hospital bills

Why Hospitals

In Nigeria, very few medical services are free of charge, and if you can’t pay your hospital bill you may not be allowed to leave. What’s worse is, sometimes, patients in need of immediate medical care lose their lives due to lack of funds.

 

OUR MISSION

Visit A Hospital Today is a non-profit organization relieving low-income patients and their families of the financial burden that comes with illnesses and health challenges.

 

HOW WE WORK

Once a month, we crowdsource materials and money to pay hospital bills and other medical needs for patients in hospitals and medical institutions in Nigeria.

Our team of volunteers work closely to ensure that 100% of the funds we raise go into relieving the mental and financial strain of medical bills on low-income Nigerians. The administrative volunteers also ensure that all funds are accounted for, then provide public financial reports for all stakeholders to see.

OUR APPROACH IS A DIRECT SERVICE

A team of our core volunteers meet once a month to visit hospitals around Nigeria, where we talk to patients about their financial and non-financial challenges and work to relieve them through crowdsourced efforts. Our hands-on approach allows us to understand patient’s specific needs, so all our visits tend to yield unique efforts. Visit A Hospital Today is an exclusively crowdsourced organisation. Our projects are facilitated by a team of volunteers, social workers and medical practitioners, and our hospital visits are purely crowdfunded. We begin by contacting medical staff within these hospitals who, beforehand, identify patients in need of financial assistance present them to us. We then crowd sourced materials, individuals and finances, for hospital rounds and patient visits.

WHERE WE WORK

We focus our work on Government and public hospitals in Nigeria, where our target beneficiaries are most likely to seek treatment. Since 2016, the team has paid 65 hospital bills and visited​ [xxx] ​hospitals. We also have a growing team of volunteers from around Nigeria and beyond.

GET INVOLVED

There are several ways you can participate or donate to our campaign:

  1. Commit to sponsoring a percentage of our monthly campaigns.
  2. Commit to donating a fixed amount monthly
  3. Commit to helping a specific number of Visit A Hospital Today beneficiaries each month.

We will present this list to you as given to us by the nominated hospital’s (of the month) social worker.

Payments will be backed up by our financial reports, and receipt from the hospital and an acknowledgement from Visit a Hospital Today foundation.

If you have any other ideas on how you’d like to support, please let us know!


Email:
info@visitahospitalfoundation.org

Phone number:

08188407684

Core Values

  • Compassion
  • Kindness
  • Accountability
  • Transparency

Our Vision

  • Each State in Nigeria having a local state chapter of Visit a Hospital Today


    Our Mission:

    • To save and improve lives, by providing financial assistance for medications and medical bills to the less privileged.
    • To improve quality of hospital stay (and in exceptional cases post hospital care) by providing relevant provisions.

Our Focus

  • Healthcare.
  • Individuals in the lower socio economic class of the state.
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Your Time
We are always looking for people who can donate their time to help us with various tasks, including hospital visits and more
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Your Skills
We organize medical out reaches, and skilled health care professionals are an invaluable resource to help us reach people who do not have access
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Your Money
Funding goes a long way to help us pay hospital bills, fill out drug prescriptions and in some rare cases, we go beyond to help the most vulnerable
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