By Correspondent in Mopa
An NGO, Hallelujah Medical Mission (HMM) on Monday, conducted basic medical health awareness and promotion programmes for over 200 children in Mopa community, Mopamuro Local Government Areas (LGA) of Kogi State.
The children were also dewormed and given free drugs such as Vit. A, multivitamins, paracetamol tablets, antimalarial drugs, including biscuits and soft drinks.
Dr Muyiwa Komolafe, a Medical Practitioner, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, represented the Leader of the NGO, Evangelist Kayode Komolafe at First ECWA Church Mopa.
Komolafe noted that the medical outreach in Mopa community was targeted at children, especially between one to seven years, hoping that the event would be done yearly.
He stressed the need to inculcate proper hygiene habits into the children and for them to be properly sensitised, saying that basic hygiene could prevent more than 80 per cent of cases of infectious diseases.
He said the gesture would not only be for the children but also be extended to the entire population in the community and spread across the LGA in the subsequent years ahead.
”Today, we have taught the children basic personal hygiene such as proper hand washing, bathing, teeth brushing, covering of food, cutting of hair and nails, among others.
”We have also given the children deworming tablets, multivatmins, paracetamol and antimalarial drugs so as to complement government’s efforts in having healthy children in the society.
”We prepared for 200 children but the turnout was more, we are happy that people responded and we are able to reach out to all of them and put smile on their faces today.
”We are also hoping to have free surgery for people in the future, and make the program much bigger, better and properly organised,”he said.
Komolafe added that they the NGO also examined the testes of some male children, to know if they descended, noting that an operation must be done to correct the testes if they did not come down.
He noted that the medical team of the NGP had so far examined about 86 children and detected three children whose testes did not properly come down and would require surgery.
Also speaking, Mr Gbotemi Komolafe, a Co-Team Leader, explained that Hallelujah Medical Mission was an arm of Hallelujah Fire On Mountain Mission Ministry, established to specifically attend to the basic health needs of the rural populace to ensure that they practice a healthy lifestyle.
He noted that the Ministry was principally stationed in Niger Republic, but also registered in Nigeria.
According to him, the Hallelujah Medical Mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and reachout to the people, especially the less privileged in the rural areas; adding, however, that “Christ is the healer but we need to do our part.”
”We thank God that this is the inaugural edition and we look forward to a bigger one”, he said.
Some parents whose children benefitted from the medical outreach, thanked the Mission for the gesture and for remembering their children at the grassroots.
Mrs Folashade Ayodele, and Mrs Oluwaseyi Mofobi, whose two and three children, respectively, benefited, said they were so happy for the gesture to their children.
