In commemoration of the this year’s Malaria Day, Daniel Ogechi Akujobi Memorial (DOAM) Foundation has organised a one-day free medical outreach in Ogolonto, Ikorodu, Lagos State.
The event held at Gospel Church of Christ, aimed to addressed health issues predominant among the less privileged. With the theme: “Speed up the fight against malaria,” the beneficiaries had one on one session with trained medical professionals.
The outreach, which focused on diagnosis, treatment of malaria, blood pressure, blood sugar level and typhoid, impacted over 264 people including children, youths and the aged.
Speaking at the event, the Foundation’s Health Programme Officer, Esther Ogbu, disclosed the outreach was aimed at providing free healthcare check-up as a preventive measure towards offering prompt intervention for the less privileged in indigent communities.
Ogbu said: “Access to quality healthcare should be a basic human right. The Foundation has remained committed in touching lives of the less privileged children, youth and aged, by providing them with essential healthcare services in different communities over the past sixteen years.”
She expressed happiness with the high turnout of indigenes during the outreach, saying, “opportunities like this offer them hope and keep them alive.”
Supported by Medvacc Pharmacy and Bond Chemical pharmaceuticals, the programme officer further appealed to well-meaning Nigerians to partner with the Foundation in order to provide free quality healthcare services in their communities and put smiles on faces of the less privileged.
