Foundation offers free health services to Kaduna residents

On Dec 1, 2023

Hope for the Village Child Foundation, has offered free medical outreach to no fewer than 300 residents of a suburb, Kasuwan Magani, Kajuru Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State. The outreach was organized in commemoration of World AIDS Day, celebrated every December 1, with this year’s theme: “Let communities lead’’.

Rev. Sister Juliana Ekwoanya, the Head of Health Section of the foundation, said the aim of the free outreach was to render service to humanity by ensuring healthy wellbeing of the society.

She added that the outreach was to touch the lives of the people, particularly the common people in communities who cannot afford basic healthcare services.

“Looking at the economic situation in the country, a lot of people come to our facility with ailment they know nothing about. This informed our decision to hold the free outreach in commemoration of the day. A lot of people come to our facility to complain of headache and that they have been taking pain killers, when we run test we find out they are battling high blood pressure,” she said.

Ekwoanya, therefore, explained that during the outreach, those found with serious health issues would be referred to appropriate health centres for proper attention.

Also, Mrs Sandra Obanewo, the Focal Person, Prevention of Mother to child Transmission of HIV and AIDS, Department of Health, Chukun LGA, said anybody who in the recent times died of AIDS was due to negligence. She advised the public to always check their HIV status, adding that the medication was free.

Obanewo also urged pregnant women to always go for antenatal and HIV test to prevent their unborn babies in unfortunate cases of testing positive to the virus.

She commended the foundation for the gesture, while calling on other individuals to key into such kind of humanitarian activities, stating that the government cannot do everything all alone.

Also, Malam Sadiq Bako, the foundation’s Head of Sustainable Livelihood, stressed the importance of medical check-ups, stating that it mitigated deterioration of diseases which would have been addressed with little resource.

He described the outreach programme as a “service to humanity’’ that would impact on the lives of people at the bottom of the society.

Bako urged the residents of the suburb to ensure proper hygiene practices and constantly go for medical check-ups.

The residents were tested for HIV, Hepatitis ‘B’ and ‘C’, malaria, Sugar, among other diseases and given medication.

NAN/Wumi