Passionate about its mission of helping people achieve optimum health and vitality, HealthPlus Pharmacy, Nigeria’s leading integrative pharmacy and fastest growing pharmacy in West Africa, carried out free health screening services at the Catholic Church of Divine Mercy, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos to commemorate this year’s World Heart Day.
The event, which took place on Sunday 29th of September 2019 at the church premises, was aimed to create more awareness on the importance of living a longer, better and heart-healthy life, and also to provide free health screening services to the worshipers.
According to Pharm. Toyin Arifayan, Head, School of Pharmacy at HealthPlus Limited, maintaining a healthy heart helps to reduce the risks of developing heart diseases such as hypertension, stroke, coronary artery disease, arrhythmia (irregular heart beat), heart failure and ischemic heart disease. The Healthy Heart Check is one of the most popular services offered by HealthPlus Pharmacy and it seeks to empower customers to “Know their Numbers”. She stated further, “HealthPlus Pharmacy has been at the forefront of the provision of Pharmacy Services across various communities in Nigeria for the past 20 years”.
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Revd. Fr. Anthony Amosun, the Assistant Parish Priest, Catholic Church of Divine Mercy, stated that the initiative is a welcomed one and should be done more often because people can be ignorant about their health. He also went on to advise Nigerians to try and carry out full health checks at least once a year. Revd. Msgr. Paschal Nwaezeapu, the Parish Priest of the Catholic Church of Divine Mercy, applauded the gesture and looks forward to more of such engagements at the Parish and Nigeria as a whole.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the world’s number one killer today. According to WHO, CVDs take the lives of 17.9 million people every year, a total of 31% of all global deaths and the number is expected to increase to 23 million by the year 2030, if adequate measures are not taken. Bringing this home, 3 out of every 10 Nigerians have a cardiovascular disease and up to 150,000 Nigerians die annually as a result of heart-related diseases.
