Karen Kelly

I've done some work with the men's health shed here or the men's shed.

And while I was over there, I met a nurse called Alhaje Drama, who's from the Gambia.

And he was doing a similar thing in the Gambia with a team of 15 nurses.

But they've won cardiologists to 2.8 million people in the Gambia.

And that statistic, I just couldn't even fathom it.

And if I go out and I do a screen in like if I do a pop up screen or if I go somewhere, I might screen 15 people in a day myself.

their team of 15 would screen 500 to 600 people in three days.

And some of those people would walk five hours to see them just to have their blood pressure checked.

So we spent a couple of hours every day chatting just around what he did and what we did.

I mean, they're exactly the same people.

They have exactly the same statistics, except people over there are dying at 30 and 40 years old of stroke because they don't know that they've high blood pressure.

The incidence of chronic kidney disease over there is huge and it's all to do with risk factors.

So, you know, when you've got cardiovascular disease, I mean, we know 80% of it is preventable.

There's 20% of it that isn't.

But if you don't know what causes it and you can't get your blood pressure checked and

There's one cardiologist to 2.8 million people.

They've five ECGs in the whole country and they've one echo machine.

I've got three ECGs in my backpack, not full ones, but the ability to do one.

And I have a point of care ultrasound, which gives me the ability to do a focused, like a quick look at somebody's heart.

So more in my backpack than they had an entire country.