Rotary Club of Asokoro District 9125 Nigeria in partnership with Rfha, Alpha Zone Eye Clinic, Prime Pharmacy, Bill and Melinda Gate foundation, and ‘End Polio Now’ has provided medical care to residents of Kobi Makaranta community in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) to alleviate the healthcare challenges in the community.
The club also gave a one-year scholarship to 50 students of Kobi primary school, whose parents are finding it difficult to meet up with their educational demands.
The President of the Rotary Club of Asokoro, Rotarian Ebele Ezezue-Israel, who spoke to journalists at the flag off of Rotary Family Health Day, explained that the free medical care was in commemoration of the Rotary family health day, while the scholarship for 50 students was to alleviate challenges of parents to sponsor their wards in school.
“This is one of the good deeds that Rotary brings to communities. Because these are communities that sometimes find it difficult to access proper medical care because the only medical facility they have is a health centre and not a standard hospital.”
“So once in a while, we go to communities to give them proper medical care. We test and give them all types of medicines for any ailments that we test them positive for, ranging from Blood Pressure, Malaria, COVID-19 vaccine, deworming, maternal kits, hepatitis vaccination, nets, and sanitary pads for women of childbearing age.
“If we have something that we cannot handle medically, the patient would be referred to a standard hospital for treatment. We are presently sponsoring some people for cataract surgery at Asokoro district hospital,” he said.
The Polio chair of the Rotary Club of Asokoro, Ogechukwu Ochuba, explained that the club was carrying out its instalment of the Rotary family health day at Kobi community, which was an adopted community of the Rotary Club of Asokoro, that the club had been supporting this community for over 15 years.
“We have built a block of classrooms for the Kobi Primary school. We are here to help the community with health basics. We also have a team from Primary Healthcare who will be immunizing children.
“As you know Polio is one of the foremost and most important projects of Rotary International. So, everywhere we go, we preach the message of Polio eradication. So, we are vaccinating children here and testing and treating COVID-19 sicknesses. This is a three-day programme,” she said.
The head teacher of Kobi primary school, Mr. Lazarus Turaki, commended the Rotary Club of Asokoro for always putting the interest of the community and school at heart, thereby appealing to the FCT minister to build more blocks of classrooms in the school.
