Residents of Akufo community in Ido local government of Ibadan, Oyo state have praised Zonta Club of Ibadan II after they benefited from the club’s free medical outreach in their community which was held over the weekend.
The outreach in collaboration with Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH)includes sensitization, test on Malaria parasites, retroviral, blood sugar, blood pressure, hepatitis B with administration of free drugs for the villagers numbering over 200.
Some of the villagers who spoke to Solutions 939fm correspondent praised the initiative which will help in saving members of the community.
While speaking to journalists on the aim behind the outreach, Former president Zonta Club II, Dr. Mrs. OLUFUNMI ADEGBILE said the club`s passion and agenda in touching lives of the less privileged and community led to the event, while noting that it will help in eradicating mortality in the state and Nigeria at large.
“ We are here with the medical intervention for this community and it actually very impressive because of the number we met here we look out for 200 and we could see that people were just going and coming you know as we are ministering to some they are going and coming and I want to appreciate members and the chairman of the community work. At Zonta, we are passionate about agenda you could see that we are mostly female but we take our time to touch lives in the special way, we don’t have anybody sponsoring us we are professional women and we have doctors nurses, pharmacist, educationist amongst us and we create a room to face a particular less privilege community and see what their issue issues are medically and will try and intervene by bringing professionals in the field medication to make a difference in their lives and I thank God since we’ve been here this is what we’ve been doing. ”
“We are begging our government to please move health centers close to the people and they should equip ,
then I guess they have a health center around but probably no drugs you know too because from the people we have seen so far you are a witness there are some of that of emergency you know and they need to visit the hospital the ones we can handle here where we brought we have intervened.”
Dr. Mrs. ADEGBILE also implored the villagers to always make use of the medical health center in order to know their health status.
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