FCT Community Receives Free Health Services Courtesy of RCCG

March 29, 2023195 views0

FCT Community Receives Free Health Services Courtesy of RCCG

2023-03-29T09:30:19+01:00

By Church News

The City of David (RCCG), commenced the construction of a Primary Healthcare Centre in Dakibiyu, an urban slum community located in the Jabi District of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).The project is to reduce the high incidence of deaths from preventable ailments, following the lack of healthcare facilities in the community. Located in the heart of the nation’s seat of power, Dakibiyu has over eight thousand residents but lacks basic amenities.Speaking at the foundation-laying ceremony of the Primary Healthcare and the free medical outreach in the community, the pastor-in-charge of the City of David, RCCG, Pastor Gbolade Okenla, lamented that a lot of Nigerians die of preventable illnesses in rural communities in the country due to lack of access to healthcare services.He explained that the church during its medical outreach in the community in May 2022, noticed that there was no single health facility in the community and decided that it would build a primary healthcare centre.Pastor Okenla told the Guardian that the Parish will be sponsoring the health centre and sending medical teams four times a week, to enable residents to have access to free medical services.He said, “There are a lot of pregnant women and people with minor diseases that shouldn’t lead to death but the lack of N500, N1,000 or even N2,000 to move out of the community is causing people to die.“We are providing free medical outreach as part of our Social Responsibility and to let the people know that though the government might have neglected them, we have not forgotten them. So, we have come to show compassion, love and to let them know that we know they exist and we care about them.”ALSO READ: RCCG Province Empowers the Youths