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A group, Umu Ada Di Igbo Nma, has offered free medical treatment to over 300 residents of Lokogoma community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The medical outreach, which took place at the St. Benedict Catholic Church in EFAB Estate, had beneficiaries screened for diabetes, hypertension, malaria and other ailments.
Speaking at the event, president of the FCT chapter of the organisation, Mrs. Lillian Ogugua, said the gesture was designed to provide health care services to indigent people within and around the community
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She decried the high cost of health care services in the country and urged the Federal Government to capture the unemployed and indigent Nigerians in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to attain universal health coverage.
Ogugua, a pharmacist, lamented that a lot of Nigerians are dying of treatable diseases at home due to their inability to access medicare and stressed the need for government to put in place, a social security system that would cater for their medical needs.
She disclosed that many cases of diabetes and hypertension were discovered in the course of the outreach and encouraged Nigerians to eat healthy.
National coordinator of the organisation, Beauty Ikeakor, urged the Federal Government to come up with a health package that would enable poor Nigerians access free medical services.
Apart from free medical screening, free drugs and health talk was given to the residents, while cases that could not be handled immediately were referred to the hospital.
