Rotary Club of Abuja Urban in partnership with Riders for Health Nigeria has given free maternal and child healthcare to over 200 women and children in Gasaki community in Karshi development area of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC).
President of Rotary Club of Abuja Urban, Jerome Lazarus, while speaking during the outreach programme tagged: Donation of Free Medical Items to Mother and Child, where medical items were donated to all the women and children in the community at the weekend, said the outreach was in line with the organisation’s calendar year.
He said the club decided to reach out to Gasaki community which is their adopted community, knowing that some people in the community could barely afford proper medication.
“The main purpose for doing this is to touch their lives. As you all know, government cannot be everywhere and cannot do everything for Nigerians. This is our way to support humanity and the government. The people we targeted are the less privileged people in rural communities and villages,” he said.
Lazarus further said since their outreach was targeted at the poor in rural communities, they do not take their outreach to satellite towns where residents can afford most of the things they are offering during their outreaches.
Representative of Riders for Health, Opiughie Harrison, said they decided to partner with Rotary Club of Abuja Urban because the club decided to reach out to indigent women in the community where the organisation built a healthcare facility estimated at N27m.
Speaking on how the government could reach out to indigent people in rural communities, he called on the government to partner with organisations like Rotary Club Abuja Urban and Rider for Health who have an interest to visit communities in the hinterland for humanitarian outreach.
“There is something called Public Private Partnership (PPP). If governments could partner with people like us, we will not mind building this healthcare facility in every local government area in Abuja, or elsewhere in Nigeria, because the cost of taking people to the hospital is very expensive,” he said.
