Women group gives medical aid to 150 people

About 150 people, both male and female, on Saturday benefitted from a free medical outreach for residents of Oluwo Nla community, Basorun and environs. The women also learnt vocational skills during an outreach.

The outreach, powered by the Good Women society of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Holy Ghost Power Cathedral, Oyo Province 2 Headquarters, Oluwo Nla, Basorun in Ibadan, was the body’s platform to touch people living within the communities around the church.

The programme, which kicked off the annual convention of the women group themed, ‘In a time like this’ was basically aimed at equipping women with basic skills to survive the current economic challenges in the country by providing them with skills needed to create strings of incomes.

The women were taught how to produce liquid soap, body cream, hair cream and bath soaps while there were also talks on making ends meet while providing a platform for their families to thrive.

Speaking during the outreach, the wife of the pastor in charge of the province, Mrs Bola Arije, stated that the outreach was based on the reality that only a healthy person,. especially a woman, can keep the home and live up to responsibilities, adding that a church must have influence on its immediate environment.

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She emphasised the need to maintain healthy habits and live a clean lifestyle that will not only keep people especially women healthy but also ensure that they live up to their responsibilities as wives and mothers.

Mrs Arije further explained that the programme was to avail people in the community access to health services they do not have to pay for as part of the efforts of the Good Women Society of the Holy Ghost Power Cathedral to impact the society as part of activities for its annual convention.

Various ailments were treated, medication were given where required and there were health talks and individual counseling for the people treated. The medical outreach was to further reduce the vacuum in access to basic medical care by many and also encourage people to make conscious efforts on health.

The medical outreach was the Good Women’s effort to serve the church’s immediate community and consequently exhibit to them divine love by partnering with medical officers in the church to provide health care to the less privileged in the society.

The group believes that giving free medical treatment to the people is a means of giving the people the luxury of sound health without having to task their purses and stop people from living with preventable or treatable health issues which prompt and proper medical services can prevent.

At the end of the exercise, the programme was adjudged to have played a critical role in improving and extending the reach of healthcare to people within the Oluwo Nla community through basic health screening, treatment, facilitating access to services through referrals and basic health education.

Speaking on the exercise, one of the beneficiaries, Ajibola Saka, expressed appreciation to the church, stating that the outreach was a life-saving mission as he never knew his health status was precarious. “I knew I usually had headaches but I thought it was just stress and I wasn’t inclined to go for tests because I have no money to do that. I am not the only one in this situation; many people also manage and overlook their health challenges because the present economic situation makes it difficult to pay the bills.

“I discovered I could have slumped and died because I have been going around with a blood pressure too high for anyone to move around with amidst other ailments. I thank them for allowing God to use them to save my life” I wish other churches and groups will also do this,” he stated.

And aside giving people access to health, women were also given access to vocational training skills to ensure that they have skills that can help to empower them financially and stop them from being dependent on others for support.

Mrs Arije emphasised that the training was not just for people with no source of employment but also for every woman as at times like this, every woman needs to build crucial life skills that will help them augment whatever income that is available to them.