'FESTAC-boy' and principal promoter of KUTH Foundation Mr. Gerald Azonobo has undertaken to bring to Amuwo-Odofin community of Lagos the same award-winning free 'medical health-care jamboree the foundation took to Irekpai community in Edo state recently.
Mr. Azonobo spoke of new plans in these directions when he hosted KUTH consultant-doctor Dr. Abayomi Dugojaiye at the formal presentation of a post-mortem on the Irekpai free community health service project just ended in Edo state.
The medical team of Dr. Durojaiye reports that, from their experience in the Estakor-West LGA experience in Edo state, at least four out of every 10 adults there had 'high blood pressure with poor care, and three out of these patients were ignorant of their predicament.'
Among some of the more critical medical observations of the team are that 'infant death is high with at least two deaths in a family secondary to poor neonatal care by the family,' in the Irekpai communities managed for five days by a team of 12 medics consulting for KUTH Foundation in the first phase of the charity's free community health services initiative.
The doctors said that 'hernia is common in men and women [and that] several cases of pterygion (abnormal flesh growth covering the eye) and other eye issues' were common. They recommended many patients for advanced medicare.
Already, arrangements are almost completed to effectuate the doctors' recommendations regarding the cases of a 22-year-old man afflicted with what the doctors called 'myodysplasitic syndrome,' a 7-year-old boy looking half his age because he has the Down Syndrome, and a three-year-old baby-girl suffering from kwashiorkor.
Specifically, the 'stunted growth' case is shortly to be moved into the Down Syndrome Foundation facilities in Lagos, according to KUTH Foundation program director Francis Chilaka who was at the post-mortem session.
But, more profoundly, Mr. Azonobo has said that he felt a compelling need to replicate for Amuwo-Odofin, his adopted 'second-home,' the same facility which Irekpai just enjoyed.
As for Irekpai particularly, and the Auchi homeland in Edo state in general, a new life in philanthropic community development is already dawning, with young persons who are responding to encouragement to send in personal details towards securing for them self-sustaining, beneficial engagement for themselves.
Mr. Chilaka says the Foundation would liaise with the state government to map out special employment opportunities for these teeming youths, next to the charity's own already shaped-up programs to create agro-based establishments in which to engage the young people.
Asked when these elaborate projects could be expected to take off, Chilaka stated that the Amuwo-Odofin free community health-care services was envisaged to happen this august, while the employment opportunities project for Irekpai youths was seen as 'a programme that should have started yesterday.'
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