Group Renders Health Services to 3 million people in Lagos Community

By Joy Obakeye 

Lagos Apex Lions Club partnered with Bloshealth Foundation to reach out to three million people in a community in Lagos.

The Club in its passion to serve humanity reached out to the people of the Ilupeju Area of Ijoko Ogba, Ayo Ifo Local Government during a  community medical Health Fair held recently. 

President of the Club, Lion Funmilayo Adegbola, speaking on the club’s interest in embarking on such outreach said: “We observed that most of the people in Ilupeju Area at Ijoko Community hardly go to the hospital for treatment when they are ill, and the pregnant women hardly go for Antenatal. They believe in self-medication by buying drugs on the roadsides or taking local herbs without doing proper medical checks to know exactly what causes their illness.  That’s what motivated our club to embark on the health outreach in That community,”

“Reaching out to the people was decided after we assessed our needs assessments. And we were able to impact 3,000 000 million people at our community free medical health Fair.”

As the club strives to help the government in reaching out to some areas they can not, Lion Adegbola advised the government to create more awareness on all health issues for people to know their health status. “They should build and equip hospitals as well as community health care centres and encourage everyone to ensure they go for the proper medical check at the health centre or general hospital in each of their community”

Chief Executive Officer, of Bloshealth Foundation, Mr Peters Olamide also advised the government to empower individuals and families in low-income communities which will ensure adequate feeding and also afford them access to subsidised healthcare.

“Government should train community Birth attendants on limitations guiding maternal and child health as these TBAs are rooted in the community. Provide Basic amenities and tools in the care of pregnant women in low-income communities. Sensitize more pregnant women in low-income communities on the importance of focused and skilled antenatal and delivery care and partner with small local NGOs focusing on the health to achieve this,” she said.

As he healthcare practitioner, Olamide advised Nigerians to always go for checks every three months to dictate any health issue on time.

“Normally, medical checkup or examination should be done every three months but in a compromised or State of health deviation, e.g hypertension, the individual is required to visit his or her health provider every week to monitor the state of health of the individual,” he said

Also, the Secretary of the Club, Lion Daramola Abisola Olubukola, advised Nigerians to take their health seriously by checking their health status regularly, eating healthily making their environment clean always and exercising themselves regularly.