Buhari’s wife conducts health screening for IDPs
Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has stressed the need for women to be conscious of their health, as a precondition for a successful livelihood.
She made the point during a health screening exercise, at the Durumi Camp, for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the FCT, on Tuesday.
Mrs Buhari was emphatic on the need for women to know their blood pressure and blood sugar, and to check themselves for malaria, sickle cell anaemia, hepatitis, cervical and breast cancers.
According to a press statement issued by the spokesman to the Wife of the President, Mr. Suleiman Haruna, Aisha, who was represented at the event by National Coordinator, Future Assured Programme, Dr. Kamal Muhammad Abdurrahman, said, “I call on all women to be conscious of their health status; it is through this consciousness that a woman can live a healthy, and therefore a productive life.”
The Future Assured Programme has conducted health screening exercises in five of the six geopolitical zones and commissioned two mobile clinics for easier access to remote areas.
She said, “We will visit the sixth geo-political zones, which is North Central, very soon, and begin subsequent rounds to more states across the country.”
The medical outreach is organized in partnership with Cry for Help Foundation, which Secretary General, Dr. Alfred Sanni, commended Mrs Buhari for the interest she was showing on the health of women and children through the exercise.
Dr. Sanni said 40 medical personnel, made up of Doctors, nurses, laboratory scientists and pharmacists, participated in the exercise.
Hundreds of the IDPs and residents of neighbouring communities benefitted from the screening exercises, while their children were checked for eye as well as Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) infections.
It would be recalled that Future Assured visited the camp two weeks ago to donate food and relief materials, promising to return with the health screening team.
Highlight of the event was the distribution of food, clothing, cosmetic and bedding items donated to the beneficiaries by the President’s wife.
