In line with its mission of putting smiles on the faces of communities in its operating environment, Rotary Club of Lagos, District 9110, recently carried out medical tests on over 150 residents of various communities on Lagos Island, as part of this year’s Rotary Family Health Day.
The activities, held at the Freedom Park, Broad Street, on Lagos Island, saw residents from different communities, within the area, undergoing different medical screenings, such as Eye Cataract treatment, hypertension counselling, Blood Pressure measurement, Glucose Level Screening and De-worming for children, among others. The screening was basically to allow the residents to determine their health status.
Speaking on the initiative, a past president of the Club, Rotarian Ayo Banjo, described the scheme as a way of giving back to the community.
According to him, the programme was designed to avail the less privileged in the community, without access to quality medical treatment, the opportunity of a comprehensive medical check-up at no cost.
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“It is an annual programme of the Rotary Club of Lagos. And what we intend to achieve with this is to give the needy, the opportunity to have themselves screened, without having to pay a kobo.
“We realised that many Nigerians would have loved to undergo medical checkup, at least to know their health status, but the challenge is usually money. So we believe this intervention will afford this class of people the opportunity to have themselves checked, without having to pay through their noses,” he stated.
