By Victor Emina
It was a harvest of joy at Gbara Maiyegun, a remote community in Ajah area of Lagos, recently when the Rotary Club of Lekki Phase 1 took free healthcare programme to their doorsteps.
The medical outreach was held at the Gbara Maiyegun Healthcare Centre. Tagged ‘Rotary Family Health Days’ (RFHD), the outreach was conducted in partnership with Chike Okoli Foundation, Rotary Family Health Days, and the local council.
The programme, which started in the morning, had a large turnout of people, both old and young. The yearly event featured free medical services such as health screening, eye screening and medication, distribution of reading glasses, polio immunisation and glucose level screening as well as BP checks.
Children were not left out as they were given deworming medication while young girls went home with sanitary pads. Also, all the participants got a mosquito net each.
President, Rotary Club of Lekki Phase 1, Rotarian Sina Elusakin, said the programme was part of giving back to the community.
His words: “When the people are healthy, the nation is healthy. In Rotary Club, people’s healthcare is one of our cardinal areas of focus. It is our topmost priority. We are passionate about people’s welfare.
“We desire to build and sustain a valuable healthcare programme for our people. Today, we have created awareness for the people to know their health status and provided solution to their health challenges. Improving the people’s welfare is important to Rotary Club.”
For the Programme Coordinator, Chike Okoli Foundation, Obiageli Adimachukwu, “The medical outreach resonates with the ideals and vision of the foundation, reason it partnered with others to execute the project.”
Adimachukwu noted that it’s always a pleasure for the foundation to add value to humanity through the project.
A beneficiary, Alhaja Ajoke Ajasa, commended the organisations for the initiative, promising to use the drugs she received as prescribed.
A teenage girl, Taiba Egwoibu, expressed joy at receiving sanitary pads, as she didn’t think it could be given free to young girls with the rising cost of basic items.
