Over Sixty thousand Nigerians across the country are set to benefit from a two-day free health screening exercise tagged ‘Family Health Days’ organised by Rotary Action Group for Family Health Aids Prevention, Rotary International, District 9110 comprising Lagos and Ogun states.
The programme kicks off on Thursday, June 23 and ends on Friday, June 24, 2022.
The two-day event was flagged off by the District Governor, Rotarian Remi Bello at Rotary Centre, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos.
He said the whole exercise which borders on early detection of ailment thorough medical check-up and screening, had been successfully carried out for the past ten years by the District with adequate follow-up.
“The rate at which people seek early attention and diagnosis these days is better than what it used to be. This is proof that we had successfully created awareness and achieved our objective,” he said.
The National Coordinator, Rotary Family Health Days, Nigeria, Past District Governor, Rotarian Bola Oyebade, said there are 60 centres across the country, including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, with 36 across Lagos and the Ogun States where simultaneously, health checks and screening of prostate cancer, diabetes and glucose level, hypertension and malaria tests, among others would take place within the two days.A
ccording to Oyebade, more than one million Nigerians had benefitted from the exercise since it started in 2012.
