Food and nutrition supplements for my patients

Patrick

Accra, Ghana

7% repaid

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Entrepreneur

Name

Patrick

Member since

June 2015

On-time repayments

118 installments • 37%

About Me

Patrick Larbi Awuku is my name, a dietician in Ghana. I was born in Suhum in the Eastern Region of Ghana and also had my basic and secondary eduction there. I graduate University of Ghana with a Bsc Dietetics in 2014 and now doing my internship as a dietitcian at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. I have managed to get through with my first degree even though I had to stay at home for 3years after high school before going to the University. I went into trading to get some money whiles at home. Now I am a dietician and am very happy for that. I love the professional and everything about it just to help save peoples lives.

My Business

I provide dietician consultation to patients. I assess them to find out whether their food choices affects their health or they have any nutrition deficiencies, obese, hypertensive, diabetics, gone through surgery and prescribe appropriate diet for them. Some needs special diets, fortifiers to fortify their food, supplements to supplement their diet, lactose free diet/formula, infant formula for new born who for some reasons cannot breast feed, or does not tolerates milk and will need other alternatives, diabetic sugar (sweeter), creamer for cholesterol patient and many other nutrition and health products. Every patient need some form of dietary support.
With my startup capital and my first loan from zidisha, I buy some of these nutrition and health products/supplements at wholesale prices and sell them to patient. I need more fund to purchase more to support my patients since they are not readily available at the hospital. This will reduce stress patients have to go through before getting these products. Income will be saved towards the opening of my own diet shop which will be very close to the hospital.

Loan Proposal

I will use the loan to purchase more of the nutrition supplements/products especially those that are not easily accessible but needed for a patient to improve nutritional and health status. I will use the GHC 279 to buy supplements like Sweeters, Ensure, Infant formula (lactogen, NAN, SMA, NAN, lactose free), Casilan, Complan. Interest generated will be used to repay my loan and the rest saved to establish my diet shop later.