Rotary Club of Abuja Federal has taken healthcare services and donated birth kits to over 300 pregnant women and children in the Kpaduma 1 community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The club also during the medical outreach which cost over N1.2 million gave a women’s health talk on hypertension and treatment, medication for sickle cell patients, deworming of children and gave the children malaria medications.
The president of Rotary Club of Abuja Federal, Oluwafunmi Elufioye, said they decided to take outreach to the community because it is one of their adopted communities on which they place priority.
“We are having a comprehensive health outreach here, by which we are trying to target our focus areas. The first is disease prevention and health, maternal and child health as well.
“We are also distributing medications for sickle cell patients, treating malaria, deworming children. We also have medications for hypertensive patients as well. We also are distributing birthing kits.
“It is quite a massive project for us, we have spent about N1.2m for the medications here because we are trying to target health-related issues which have been very prevalent here in the Kpaduma 1 community,” she said.
Elufioye said they had complaints of pregnant women who did not have money for their medication and did not have birthing kits, and the children needed to be treated for malaria because of the rainy season.
“Our next project is education and literacy, we are currently working on renovating the school library, every agreement has been reached and our engineers are currently assessing the place.
“We have started purchasing all the books that are needed in the library and we are looking at an estimation of N2.5m for the renovation.
Rotary has areas of focus, and a majority of our projects are always targeted at our areas of focus.
“We have been supporting this community for a while and we are currently renovating the library for the school in this community. That is under our education-based project,” she said.
The project director for the club, Rotarian Adeleye Jasper, said that in Rotary, they have a calendar for each, that July happens to be their maternal and child healthcare month, while September happens to be the month designated for sickle cell and pregnant women.
