Rotary International’s Rotarians for Family Health and AIDS prevention (RFHA) has provided free health services for no less than 150,000 Nigerians nationwide.
While speaking during the launch of Rotary Family Health Days 2015 at the Rotary Centre, Ikeja, Lagos, Director, West Africa Operations, RFHA, Rotarian Olugbemiga Olowu, said RFHA is dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable children and families.
He said “The Rotary Family Health Days are a comprehensive, holistic offering of free healthcare for parents, children, grand-parents, friends and all family members in over 130 sites from Kano, Gombe, Jos, Kaduna, Abuja to Enugu, Owerri, Yenogoa, Calabar, Benin down to Akure, Ibadan, Ijebu-Ode, Abeokuta, Lagos and many other villages, towns and cities in 27 of the 36 states of Nigeria.”
The free health services which ended during the weekend included HIV testing, family counseling, diabetes and hypertension screening and education, breast and cervical cancers screening, polio immunisation, malaria testing and provision of long lasting insecticides nets, condom distribution, eye and dental checks.