A total of 184 market men and women have received free dental and other medical care from the Taiwo Afolabi Free Rural Dental Outreach held at the popular Dugbe market in Ibadan recently.
The community health outreach, which was organised by the University Of Ibadan Association Of Dental Students and sponsored by SIFAX Group, is a free medical mission targeted at rural communities in Oyo State.
The beneficiaries enjoyed services such as body mass index (BMI) measurement, blood pressure test, random blood glucose measurement, blood pressure measurement, dental clerking, examination and referrals, extractions and scaling and polishing.
A cross section of medical personnel deployed for the event include doctors, medical and dental students from the University College Hospital, Ibadan, who utilised the opportunity sensitised the beneficiaries on how to improve their oral health.
Olumuyiwa Akande, Corporate Affairs manager, SIFAX Group, said the sponsorship of the programme was part of the humanitarian gestures of the company, adding that SIFAX Group believes that healthy citizens translate to a healthy nation.
Urenna Emenyonu, president, University of Ibadan Dental Students Association, said the aim of the outreach was to create oral health awareness and to promote good oral health hygiene in the society.
She noted that SIFAX Group’s support for the outreach has helped to not only reach out to many rural persons but also equip the medical students with adequate field knowledge needed for them to excel in dentistry.
She called on other corporate organisations to emulate the company by partnering with the student body to take the rural health mission to other communities.
AMAKA ANAGOR-EWUZIE
