UNIBEN chapter of FECAMDS impacts villagers

No fewer than 150 indigenes of Usen community in Ovia North East Local government area of Edo State have benefited from a medical checkup courtesy of the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students Association (FECAMDS), University of Benin (UNIBEN) chapter.

The outreach according to the president of the association, Raphael Oludele, is a yearly programme targeted at impacting on the lives of rural dwellers with the message of salvation and free Medicare.

“Many rural dwellers are in the habit of shunning medical checkup owing to the cost and distance. It is in the light of this that we bring the hospital closer to them,” he said.

Oludele noted that this year’s outreach coincided with the yearly National Health project of FECAMDS.

Delivering a talk on Lassa Fever, Agatha Odaman, 400 Level of medicine and surgery, stated that unhygienic environment encourage the breeding of the vector that cause the disease. She noted that clean environment, covering our food from dust and insects and as well visiting a health centre when they feel any of the symptoms of the disease would help keep them alive.

The programme saw the villagers undergo blood pressure check, urinalysis and visual screening and general body examination.

While children less than five years had malaria test, scaling and polishing of teeth. Drugs were given out to those whose cases required it for free.

Free mosquito nets donated by the Edo State Ministry of Health were also distributed to the villagers.