NGO seeks healthcare delivery in remote communities
To bridge the gaps in the country’s health care sector, a non governmental organisation, Patent Pathways International, has advocated the strengthening of healthcare delivery in underserved communities.
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The Project coordinator, Dr Oluyombo Peters, said this on the sidelines of a medical mission in Egun-nla community in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State.
Peter said: “We are focused on improving health outcomes and we want to take it one community at a time. We aim to strengthen health care delivery in underserved communities.
“We saw the gaps in the country’s health sector and decided that if we could fill those gaps by starting medical missions we would be able to find solutions to the problems we’ve identified.
“In Africa, health care is not a right as it is supposed to be; we still have to contend with factors such as accessibility and affordability.”
Some of the residents of the area were screened on diabetes, while some had their blood pressure, checked during the medical mission.
Peters added that some of those screened would be linked with health officers in their local government area for follow-up checkups.
“Our medical mission is conducted in such a way that after we identified that a particular person has an ailment, we liaise with medical officers in the Local Government Area to follow them up. We don’t just check them and leave them,” he said.
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