The Federal Capital Territory’s (FCT) Bwari Area Council’s (Bwari Area Council) free health care outreach program has benefited over 3,500 inhabitants of the Galuwyi neighborhood. It was organized by the Rotary Club of Maitama, Abuja.
In order to commemorate this year’s Rotary Family Health Day, the Rotary Club of Maitama’s president, Rotarian Yusuf Alli, revealed that a free health outreach program was organized, offering over 3,500 community members examinations and treatments for all illnesses.
He clarified that because of their motto, “Each one, bring one, safe one; each one brings one, care for one,” every Rotary Club has an adopted community and that the Rotary Family Health Day is a part of strengthening their relationship with it.
“At the moment, we have around 3500 people who have received free health treatments. We also accomplished several goals and increased awareness of the health state of our adopted community. We addressed their fundamental health issues, and as a result, we will know whether the condition is widespread in the neighborhood.
We will also be able to determine whether they are susceptible to epidemics. With this, we will be able to recommend them to the proper health authorities, a secondary hospital, or a referral hospital, the doctor explained.
Additionally, Ms. Susan Paget, a Rotarian from the United States, pointed out that the Rotary Club International has carried out over 11 million healthcare outreach programs in 11 African nations, and that no less than 2.6 million Africans have benefited from the club’s humanitarian services throughout the 11 African nations.
Paget, who disclosed this while chatting with journalists on the sidelines of the medical outreach, said the outreach’s goal was to bring health care and prevention to populations without access to it.
“What Rotary has done today is executed on Rotary Family Health Care Programme, and the program runs through what is called “Rotary Action Group,” of which I am the CEO,” said the US-based Rotarian who is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rotary Family Health and Aids Prevention (RFHA), which is based in Georgia, US.
“This program provides areas without access to healthcare with free health care and prevention services. We currently provide over 2.6 million people with over 11 million health services across our 11 operational nations. Nigeria is one of our hallmark programs, and that is our program, she stated.
Rotarian Bola Oyebade, the national coordinator of RFHA in Nigeria, stated that the program’s outreach was carried out in 125 venues across the country to provide free healthcare to the least fortunate members of society.
