To fulfil its commitment to improving reproductive health and child care services within its adopted community of Jahi 2, the Rotary Club of Abuja Ministers Hill has provided essential services to pregnant women in the community to ensure the safe and sound delivery of their children.
The president of the Rotary Club of Abuja Ministers Hill, Rotarian Oro-Ghene Adia, said it was imperative that they pay attention to pregnant women and the children that are yet unborn by providing essential services to them through health talk about reproductive health and nutrition which is very important for the child to grow, commission light and provide refrigerator to preserve eye spack, donate vaccine and mosquito net.
According to him, this is done to ensure that people who come to this primary health care will have access to and receive the essential services they need.
“Today, we are vaccinating about 50 children and attending to about 200 hundred women by distributing mosquito nets to them.
“This is essential because mosquitoes lead to maternal mortality, so providing these items to them will help them sleep in good condition so that they don’t have mosquitoes disturbing their health,” he said.
Therefore, he called for partnership to enable Rotary to reach out to communities. “We know this community, we work with them, and we provide humanitarian services to them, so we encourage NGOs and well-meaning Nigerians in and outside Nigeria who want to give back to humanity to reach out to any Rotary club, even the Rotary Club of Abuja Ministers Hill, and we can partner with you.
“We have lined up a lot of activities during the rotary year, starting with maternal and child health, followed by education, economic empowerment for women, training for youths, diseases and prevention, peacebuilding, wash environment and many others,” he added.
Speaking, the officer in charge of the primary health care Jahi 2 facility, Idongesit George Akpan commended the Rotary Club of Abuja Ministers Hill for doing a lot for this community.
Also, the acting programme officer, planning monitoring evaluation, Abuja Municipal Area Council health department, Mr Goodnews Apollos, said the gesture by the Rotary Club of Abuja Ministers Hill was laudable, adding that the club has been supporting communities and the government, especially with public health initiatives.
He noted that with the nutrition intervention they provided, the community would benefit because it would improve the nutrition status of both the mothers and the babies.
“So their intervention here today will improve the quality of the health care services available to the community,” he said.
