The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC has taken its medical outreach programme to some rural communities in Osun State.

Flagging off the programme at Apomu in Isokan Local Government, the NYSC Coordinator in Osun State, Mrs Winifred Shokpeka said the initiative was part of the mandate of the scheme to impact rural dwellers, improve corps members’ sense of national integration and patriotism.

Mrs. Shokpeka explained that residents of rural communities would benefit immensely from such interventions, considering the distance of hospitals to them and sometimes money to access basic medical care.

The NYSC Coordinator in Osun State appealed to all members of communities benefiting in the outreach to take advantage of the opportunity to know their health status as a measure to prevent fatalities.

Also speaking, the Head of the NYSC Medical Team, Dr Chidinma Ibe hinted that the programme was a volunteer initiative of the corps medical personnel to create awareness, to help the rural dwellers find answers to some of their hidden health questions.

She stated that the intervention would provide succour for the people because some of them did not visit the hospital for lack of money and other personal reasons.

Dr Ibe pointed out that the programme was designed majorly for the elderly due to the obvious challenges associated with health at old age with risk of high blood sugar, high blood pressure and degenerating immune system.

She advised the people to take their health more seriously and go for medical checkups at least once a year.

Beneficiaries of the medical outreach were taken through diabetes, blood sugar and blood pressure screening by the medical corps of the NYSC.

Adenitan Akinola

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