Over 400 residents of Dawaki community in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) over the weekend benefitted from the free health care outreach organised by the Rotary Club of Abuja Crystals in the community.
The Vice President of the Rotary Club of Abuja Crystals, Rotarian Ariwodo Comfort, said the outreach was organised to mark this year’s Rotary Family Health Day, saying that over 400 people in the community were offered free health outreach, which included tests and treatments of all ailments.
She noted that the Rotary Family Health Day is a way of serving humanity and helping residents and indigenes of the adopted community, adding that the medical outreach was a way of giving back to the community.
Comfort said: “We are here for the Rotary Family Health Day, which is carried out every year. Our club took it upon itself to come to this community, which is our adopted community, to share what we have with them. We targeted over 400 residents here. We came here with drugs, we came here with the nurses and the doctors who checked them, and gave them the drugs.
“We checked their BP, we conducted malaria tests for them. Also, we checked their sugar levels. This is our adopted community, and this is what we did for them as our charity. We brought things that we could afford for them, and it doesn’t mean that it ends here. Like I said, it is our adopted community, and it doesn’t mean that we are not coming here again.
“Our treatment covered Diabetes, high blood pressure, sugar level, and malaria for children. We shared sanitary pads, and at the same time, we conducted hypertension screening, tuberculosis screening, hepatitis b and c, and we de-wormed the children in the community. Cervical/ breast/prostate cancer screening, dental care, and eye cataract tests were also carried out’’.
One of the beneficiaries, Justina Yohanna, who spoke with Journalists, thanked the Rotary Club of Abuja Crystals for the free medical outreach in the community, which she said, had taken care of their medical needs.
