An Enugu based group, Joy Onyesoh Foundation, has urged women to regularly check their health, to enable them detect and treat any ailment on time.
The Executive Director, Mrs. Chioma Duru, gave this advice on Sunday in Enugu during a Medical Outreach organised by the Foundation in collaboration with the Global Initiative for Development and Care of Women and Youth (GIDCOWAY).
Duru said that the regular medical checks would help women to live a healthy life, free from avoidable illness, hence the need to organise the medical outreach.
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She pointed out that the outreach was part of the Foundation’s contribution to improve the health of women in Enugu metropolis, adding that men were not exempted from benefitting.
The Executive Director revealed that qualified medical doctors and nurses were recruited to examine and recommend drugs to the beneficiaries, which she added was free of charge.
Duru said that aside the medical outreach, the Foundation also used the opportunity to educate and enlighten women on how to deal with the increasing Gender Based Violence (GBV) against them or fellow women.
She charged them to report cases of GBV to Human Rights Organisations for approximate action to be taken.
Also speaking, the National President of GIDCOWAY, Mrs Ngozi Eboh, said her organisation supported the Medical Outreach because of its implication to the beneficiaries, saying that health is wealth.
Eboh urged the beneficiaries to see the outreach as a golden opportunity to have themselves examined medically, which the foundation was offering them on a platter of gold.
In an interview, some of the beneficiaries, Mrs Nkechi Nwankwo and Mr Vincent Ahaga, thanked the Foundation for the kind gesture, aimed at improving their lives, and urged them to sustain the tempo.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that many women across the metropolis gathered to benefit from the medical outreach including blood pressure and sugar level checks.(NAN)
