The Redeemed Christian Church of God, The Calvary Area Headquarters, Province 89, Oshodi, Lagos State, conducted a medical outreach on Saturday to commemorate its 27th anniversary, and no fewer than 1,000 adults and children benefited from it.
Free medical consultations, healthy lifestyle coaching, blood pressure checks, blood sugar screenings, deworming, eye examinations, and more were all included in the event, which has been hosted in the town for the past ten years.
According to information obtained by BVN, Pharmatex Industries, Emzor Pharmaceuticals, and the Chike Okoli Foundation worked together with the RCCG to plan the outreach.
Mr. Bode Martins, the administrator of the initiative, emphasized that, the outreach was designed as a way for people, both adults and children, to receive free medical healthcare services as a way of giving back to the community.
We have worked with Emzor Pharmaceuticals and Pharmatex Nigeria Limited to serve more than 5,000 beneficiaries over the past ten years. They give the medications to us at no cost. Medical professionals who donate their time and skills are also available.
“Its purpose is to assist those who lack the financial means to receive medical care at the hospital. This is an example of the church’s Corporate Social Responsibility efforts aimed at making life easier for the general public. We want to take care of them because we rely on them for membership,” he continued.
Theresa Obioha, a spokesperson for Emzor Pharmaceuticals, commended the church on its initiative and reaffirmed the company’s commitment to working with the church to provide relief to vulnerable members of the public in the future. She also noted that the medical outreach has been ongoing for a considerable amount of time.
“Emzor has been in this partnership for a very long time. We provide different kinds of drugs for different health challenges. The outreach is helping the community, because some have not checked their blood pressure for a long time. So, we do a series of tests for them and give them the drugs for free of charge. About 85 per cent of the people we met in this outreach are hypertensive,” she disclosed.
One of the medical doctors attending to the beneficiaries, Dr Rotimi Adesanya, advised the government to adopt the pattern of organising medical outreaches for members of the community.
“The programme is a laudable one and I have lost count of the medical outreach and other programmes they hold to help the community. Beyond preaching the word of God, it is a church of the community and they feel the pains of the community and we appreciate what they have been doing.“
