Edo, social group partner on medical outreach to rural communities
Edo State Agency for the Control of Aids (EDO SACA), in partnership with Ogbona Elites Forum, has concluded plans to assemble a team of experts on a medical outreach to Ogbona community in Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State.
In a statement, vice president, Ogbona Elites Forum, Ikhane Bernard Kasim, notes that the medical outreach holds from September 1 to 3, and will complement the state government’s effort on healthcare delivery, as the team of experts consist of acute medical consultants, geriatricians, cardiologists and a stroke physician.
Ikhane says the team will “be donating some medical equipment to the Community Health Centre and the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Comprehensive Health Centre, Ogbona, (M.C.K. Orbih Comprehensive Health Centre, Ogbona).
He notes that the equipment includes: “ECG machines, along with other new devices, that can detect a trial fibrillation and hence reduce the incidence of stroke. These are the newest machines in the market and they are cloud-enabled.”
Executive director, EDO SACA, Flora Oyakhilome, urges Edo people to take advantage of the medical outreach.
Ikhane explains “The ECGs will be read in real time by a cardiologist in the United Kingdom who will do the analysis and send down the results immediately. We expect to carry out about 10,000 tests with the cloud-enabled Technomed machines. We will also be donating a powerful solar generator with a hybrid rack system, which is also a new technology that produces portable water.
“The team made up of seven foreign, 30 home-based medical doctors and eight nurses will be accompanied by directors and technicians of the supporting companies who will install the machines and ensure they work,” he adds.