Group offers free medical screening to Ogun residents

No fewer than 500 residents of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital have benefitted from free medical outreach carried out in the area by the Glorious Liberty Church.

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The medical outreach organised by the church in collaboration with Beth -help the foundation, and also gave food items and clothing to over 1,500 aged in the state capital.

The residents were screened for malaria, typhoid, high blood pressure, blood sugar, and other ailments.

Speaking at the outreach held at the church’s premises on Saturday, the Senior Pastor of Glorious Liberty, Richard Osanaiye said the beneficiaries were given drugs free of charge.

He added that some of the residents received free eye examinations and glasses prescription from an Ophthalmologist available during the screening.

He expressed the commitment of the church to continue to provide free medical outreach for residents of the state.

He added, “What happened is that one of the visions of GLC global is to be able to be a blessing to less privileged.
“Sometimes we do it once every quarter where we just bring food for the less privileged. Then free medical aid to the people who are sick, especially those people who are battling with high blood pressure. We give them drugs, malaria drugs, and the cases we cannot handle, we refer them to the hospital.

“Today we reached out to over about 1, 500 persons. We gave them food, we gave them clothes, and we gave them free medical services.

“So, we gave free medical services to almost 400 to 500 patients. And everybody had food. About 1500 people had food. We gave them rice, we gave them beans, we gave them spaghetti, we gave them noodles. We reached out to children also, and we also going to be doing it again.”

The cleric, however, said there is a need for the government to implement a strategy that can take care of the senior citizens of the country.

“I think like today, now our major focus is on the aging elderly people, widows and the people that we know cannot work. And yet maybe they don’t have anybody to fend for them.

“I think there should be a system where such people are attended to, maybe a kind of a house where you keep old people who do not have people to attend to them. They are senior citizens. They can’t work and some of them do not have children to take care of them.

“In the Bible, the Bible recorded that everybody that has old people or widows should take care of them. But for the ones that don’t have people to take care of them, the church takes care of them.
“So, we’ve come to this, and we found out that we actually wanted the widows and the old people. By the end of the day, everybody showed up.

“But we focused more on those elderly people. We checked their vitals, we give them free medical care, and we give them food and clothing,” he noted.

The Chairman of the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state, Adeshina Ogunsola had in December 2023, appealed to corporate organisations and philanthropists to rise and contribute to the development of their immediate society.

Ogunsola noted that community development is a collective effort that should be supported by all.
The LG boss stressed that assisting the government through intervention schemes from individuals and corporate organisations would assuage the suffering of the people.