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IHPI embarks on a 3-Day free medical outreach

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By EZEKIEL DONTINNA  

THE International Health Promotion Initiative (IHPI), Abuja, has embarked on a 3-Day free medical outreach rendering medical services to five hundred people, targeting women and children as well as aged people carrying out tests and administering drugs in Bukuru of Jos-South Local Government Area, Plateau State.

The exercise which started Thursday and rounded up Saturday in collaboration with Mutfwang/Piyo Campaign Organisation, took place at the Bukuru Mini Stadium. Hundreds of people trooped in to get tested and drugs were administered. They also distributed treated mosquito nets respectively as part of IHPI’s contribution to health promotion to the society.

The Coordinator of the International Health Promotion Initiative (IHPI), Dr. Dan Mathew, said, “the International Health Promotion Initiative just as the name implies is to create more awareness and fill the gap for sustainable health. You know, if you intervene in whichever way in healthcare system, it is a positive contribution towards saving life in the society.

“For this programme, our target is to have five hundred (500) community members-children, women and aged. And as can see, the testing and treatment cut across every sphere of healthcare issues like malaria to sugar analysis and some of the presentations that we normally have.

“You can see multivitamin for pregnant women and you can see also that we have distributed treated mosquito nets. Our target for mosquito nets is for children and pregnant women who are susceptible to malaria because children need to be protected. Aged men are not left out as you can see”, he highlighted.

Earlier, the Chairman of Mutfwang/Piyo Campaign Organisation, PDP Governorship flagbearer in Plateau State, Barr. Caleb Mutfwang, represented by Pastor Marian Mutle, appreciated the IHPI Coordinator for the life- saving gesture which has blessed the people of Bukuru. He called on the people of Bukuru to mobilise more people to come out and benefit from this programme.

There were words of appreciations from Mrs. Uche Becky, David Chuwang and Mama Angela Obi, indigenes of Anambra State resident in Plateau State wishing the organizers luck in whatever they seek in their lives. There were also group photographs as beneficiaries smiled home with administered drugs and mosquito nets.

 

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