Rotary offers N1m drugs, care to Abuja community

The Rotary Club of Abuja, Maitama, over the weekend offered medical outreach to 300 residents of Galuwyi, an urban slum in Bwari Area Council. Health workers on the outreach offered glucose and blood tests, blood pressure checks, tests for malaria and HIV, and provided free treatment for malaria. The team also dispensed anti-hypertensive drugs, iron […]

The Rotary Club of Abuja, Maitama, over the weekend offered medical outreach to 300 residents of Galuwyi, an urban slum in Bwari Area Council.

Health workers on the outreach offered glucose and blood tests, blood pressure checks, tests for malaria and HIV, and provided free treatment for malaria.

The team also dispensed anti-hypertensive drugs, iron supplements, painkillers, contraceptives and distributed sanitary towels, ointments and creams.

The commodities estimated  at N1 million,  were provided in partnership with Oakfield Initiative and NNPC Medical Centre to mark Rotary’s Family Health Day.

The club’s president, Winifred Ogbebo, said residents in the area have “little or no access” to health care, prompting the outreach to bridge the gap.

The club “adopted” Galwuyi as beneficiary of its social responsibility and has built a health centre, a residence for health workers and sunk three boreholes in the community.

“There’s no satisfaction greater than impacting lives. Governments across the world cannot do it alone, that’s why we keep having annual budgets.

“Come, let’s join hands and make the world a better and brighter place. We have achieved so much in our polio eradication efforts today because of the joy of partnership,” she said.