NGO holds medical outreach in Akinyele community, educate residents
By Olatunde Ajayi
No fewer than 2000 residents of Akinyele community in Ibadan benefited from various healthcare services during a medical outreach organised by Enablers Diaspora Grassroots Support Outreach (EDGSO) Worldwide, a Non Governmental Organisation(NGO) on Friday.
The medical outreach also featured health education on chronic and preventive diseases. Such as hypertension and diabetes, free medical check up and free distribution of basic medications among others.
The Founder and the President of EDGSO Worldwide, Chief Mrs Ayoyinka Wilson, in her remarks said that the aim of the outreach was to promote good health, alleviate people’s suffering, and to positively impact the wellbeing of the people in the grassroots.
She said that the drugs distributed to over 2000 people would sustain them for the next three months. She urged Nigerians to cultivate habits of checking their health status regularly to prevent issues being complicated before necessary action would be taken.
“In addition to free medical services, we are also distributing free raw food items and other daily essentials to people to reduce the burdens of high cost of food items on the citizens.
“We are not doing this because of any political gain and we do not have any politician or government bankrolling our activities since its inception in the past six years, “she said.
The Founder lauded the EDGSO donors and supporters all over the world that have been donating generously to the organization for the past six years.
Also speaking, the Oyo State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Dr Wasiu Olatubosun, attributed the increased development in the state to synergy and enabling environment created by Gov. Seyi Makinde led administration for private organizations and individuals with laudable initiatives.
The commissioner expressed readiness of the state government to give its maximum support for the NGO in all its future programmmes.
In his response, His Royal Highness, Oba James Odeniran, the Alakinyele of Akinyele, Ibadan, expressed gratitude to EDGSO for choosing Akinyele as one of the beneficiary communities of its 2024 community give away and medical outreach for second time.
The royal father noted that the intervention would go a long way in bringing succour to people that could not afford quality medical services.
On her part the Iyaloja of Akinyele, Mrs Bintu Muraina, on behalf of other beneficiaries of the free medical outreach said that the NGO had successfully made a positive indelible mark in Akinyele through its various life changing initiatives.
She urged other well meaning Nigerians to emulate the founder of the EDGSO who has dedicated her resources to put smiles on the faces of the people at the grassroots.
It would be recalled that the outreach which started at Sepeteri on Monday was taken to Ijero Ekiti, Ikere Ekiti, and Akure in Ondo state.
