Lions clubs target 50 million Nigerians for eye treatment

The International Association of Lions Clubs are targeting treatment of over 200 million physically impaired people in the world for this year.

The Clubs’ year begins on July 1st, 2018 and ends on June 30th, 2019.

 The International President of the clubs, Gudrun Yugvandottir who was in Nigeria to flag off the vision and diabetes campaign in Nigeria, disclosed this in a press conference on Friday.

She disclosed that though, the clubs have been treating eye problems over the years, they have decided to step up their services to treat other illnesses.

“We started treating eye diseases since the start of this club,” she said. “Through our programmes, we have eradicated eye problems in Africa, South America, China and all over the world.”

Yugvandottir also noted that since many people were suffering from diabetes, the body had decided to help tackle the situation.

She however, noted that countries could tinker with the programme to suit their peculiar agenda for the year.

Speaking  more on the programme, Lion Ademola Adesuyi, the vice district governor of District 404 B2 Nigeria, said the Lions clubs in Nigeria were targeting 50 million people with eye diseases this year.

 “In Abuja, we are just building the facilities to treat eye problems with corneal transplant our major target.

 “We are targeting 50 million Nigerians this year”, he said.

He said building of capacity to have more eye experts was top on their agenda while eye screening and awareness campaigns will start in earnest.

 While disclosing that the treatment facility which is located in Abuja will service all Nigerians and Africans, he said the eye treatment project had been on going in the south for a while.

 Lions clubs are in more than 200 countries in the world and are made up of over 1.5 million members all together.