Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and more, all belonging to Paincare Outreach team, visited residents of Ronke Street in Ijeshatedo area of Lagos and surrounding communities on the Saturday, March 16th, to provide free medical care and drugs to the less privileged in the community.
The mission, which is the brainchild of Peter Ebere Nwosu, managing director, Greenlife Pharmaceutrical Limited, aims to provide healthcare for the less privileged.
Over three thousand people from the environment and neighbouring communities partook in this gesture. Those with non-complex ailments were given medication as prescribed by the doctors while others with visibly nothing to attend to were given over-the-counter drugs and other multivitamins to ensure that they maintained good health. Participants generally left with food items including rice, beverages, noodles, tomato puree, among others in good measures.
For Steve Akindasa, one of the outreach members, “Some people think Paincare Outreach is an NGO, but we think of it as a mission that is out to provide succour for the most needy and poverty stricken members of communities, while also delivering to them an opportunity to embrace God through Jesus Christ.”
Paincare Outreach reminds Peter Ebere Nwosu, of his days of humble beginnings. “Seeing people scramble for food makes me feel so sad. Each time I see that I cry because of my background,” he said.
Further adding that “I and my siblings saw and felt hardship. We lost our dad quite early in our lives and the burden was totally on my mother to bring us up. One particular Christmas day, we had no single grain of rice in the house. You know what that means. Then my mother decided to go to the farm to see if she could get any kind of food at all for us to eat; but in the farm, there was nothing to bring home and she could not face us back in the house with an empty basket.”
“She broke down in tears on her way back, she ran into a man who gave her 50 kobo (fifty kobo), and with that she was able to get us something at least to eat. But you can imagine what kind of food 50 kobo would make. One day she fell so sick and we could not do anything to help her because we could not afford even the cheapest medical bills in any hospital at all. After that day, I prayed to God and made a vow to him that any time he blesses me, I will do everything to help people in need. That is exactly what I am doing today,” he disclosed.
So far Paincare has touched about 20,000 (twenty thousand) lives directly, as it provides assistance for widows even as far as in the South-East, while also giving food and in some cases monetary relief to people in dire needs.
