For the second year running, Ikeja Electric Plc (IE), Nigeria’s largest electricity distribution company has collaborated with one of its business partners, XT Monitor Ltd, to organise a four-day medical outreach for communities within its network. The activity began on Monday at its Oshodi Business Unit.

The outreach facilitated by a United States medical mission, comprising five medical specialists based in the U.S. is providing free medical treatment to about 1,500 persons. The scope of the medical mission is the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases with special attention to diabetes and hypertension.

The Managing Director of XT Monitor, Kayode Adeoti, said: “This medical mission aligns with our strategy of engagement and advocacy and it provides a platform to demonstrate that we and our principal, Ikeja Electric care for the good of the consumers and communities where we work.

Today, we have a lot of people walking on the streets stressed up and with ailment they don’t know they have. From our experience last year, a lot of customers were discovered with hypertension and diabetes. They were not only checked but provided with free medications.”

The business manager at Oshodi Business Unit, Mrs. Eniobong Ezekiel, said the essence of the initiative is to have healthy customers.

“We are a company that is concerned about our customers. We have customers who probably have not been to hospital this year, who don’t know what their health status is and who have no idea what is going on in their body. We have had customers who have visited us and had health issues when they came to pay bills because medically they were unfit.”