Over the weekend over 250 persons benefitted from a one day Medical Outreach programme organised by the Benin City Chapter of the National Association of Seadogs (Benbow Deck) with over 100 free medicated glasses issued and more than 50 dental extractions done.
The programme which is for the first quarter of the year held at the RAHI Hospitals located at Country Home, a suburb of Benin City, the Edo State capital.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Chris Ekiyor, the Capoon of the Benbow Deck, stated the group’s commitment to healthy living conditions for all.
He asserted that the group’s quarterly project of attending to the medical challenge of communities is sacrosanct and would be sustained throughout his tenure.
According to him: “This Medical Outreach is a tripartite project between the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), RAHI Hospitals and Eminent Minds Group.
“The project is centered in line with the SDG – providing health for all. Every quarter in a year we have an outreach which equals three outreaches throughout the year.
“We choose a strategic community where there is a gap. We go and provide free eye care eg if you have cataract we find a surgeon to intervene. We pay for these surgeries.
“If it is dental care, RAHI Hospitals has a full dental unit so each time we go out we deal with dental surgery. We do extractions, we do replacement dentures. All of these for free. We also do public health speaking and talk about living well amidst scourge of COVID, HIV etc. It is part of Pyrate Confraternity giving back to the world.”
Speaking about the project, Dr. Edward Aisowieren described it as “a laudable initiative where everything is offered for free to the people.”
A mother of four, who preferred her name been kept off the press, thanked the NAS for the programme saying that she and her four kids were attended to free of charge.
Another beneficiary, Mrs. Uche, who accessed free eye check and got a free scaling and polishing done for her was elated and thanked the Association for its milk of human kindness.
An elderly man, Pa Odion Eghosa, was very thankful to the organisers of the programme for their dedication and paying attention to details of the patients’ health history.
