Rotary Club Assists Jahi Primary Healthcare

In an effort to fullfil its avowed commitment to improve reproductive health and child care services within its adopted community of Jahi 2, the rotary club of Abuja ministers hill has taken essential services to pregnant women of the community to ensure safe and sound delivery of their children.

The president, Rotary Club of Abuja Ministers Hill, Rotarian Oro-Ghene Adia said it was imperative that they pay attention to the pregnant women and the children that are yet to be born 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, donates vaccine and mosquito net.

According to him, this is done to ensure that when people come to this primary health care, they will have access, and there will be light and essential services they will need.

“Today, we are vaccinating about 50 children and attending to about 200 hundred women by distributing mosquito net to them.

“This is essential because mosquito is what lead to maternal mortality, so providing these items to them, help them to sleep in good condition so that they don’t have mosquito disturbing their health.”

He therefore called for partnership, to enable rotary to reach out to communities, “we know this communities, we work with them and 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 rotary club of Abuja ministers hill and we can partner with you. We have line 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, peace building, wash environment and many others.

Speaking, the officer in charge of the primary health care Jahi 2 facility, Idongesit George Akpan commended Rotary club of Abuja ministers hill haven done a lots to this community, even the other facility that she had work, we benefited a lot both with the training of staffs, reaching the less previledged in their houses, through house to house sensitization and on this, rotary club ministers hill have been doing good work to ensure we have necessary equipment needed in the facility for people to come.

Initially, women like to deliver in their houses while some go to other primary health care but now, with the help of rotary club, these women are now receiving treatment in this facility.

Also speaking, Acting program officer, planning monitoring evaluation, Abuja Municipal Area council health department, Mr Goodnews Apollos said the gesture done by the rotary club of Abuja ministers hill was laudable and they have been supporting communities and supporting government especially with public health initiative.

He noted with their nutrition intervention they provided, the community will benefit because it will improve the nutrition status of both the mothers and the babies and the essential drugs that they have provided for pregnant mothers, this are supplement they recommended for them like SP for prevention for malaria in pregnancy, this are some of the indices also the highest causes of maternal mortality, once the red blood cells are infected, it mean both the pregnant mother and the child will have other opportunistic infection.

So with their intervention here today will improve the quality of the health care services that will be available to the community, he said.