Rotary Club of Eko Atlantic has pledged to end sickle cell, cancer, maternal and infant mortality, typhoid and other diseases in Lagos State.
The stated this while donating laboratory equipment to assist accurate testing, diagnosis and treatment at Ogba primary healthcare centre (PHC), Lagos.
The club recently donated electrophoresis machine, medical centrifuge machine, laboratory/research binocular microscope, heamoglobin metre and laboratory incubator to Ogba PHC to upgrade testing and diagnosis capacity in order to reduce death rate.
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Sunit Deb Roy, the president of the club, while handing over the equipment, said Rotary has six core areas, with this project focused on healthcare, especially as the club seeks to end mortality arising from child bearing, sickle cell, cancer and typhoid among other diseases, just as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Nigeria polio free.
According to Roy, the project was made possible through combined efforts of members based on the need for accurate diagnosis and treatment. Roy stated that Rotary Club of Eko Atlantic adopted Ogba PHC facility and will ensure its upgrade to the highest standard.
“We had inspected the delivery room, laboratory, and all the departments in the facility and how we can upgrade them. We are donating five laboratory equipment so that people can come to this healthcare centre to do culture test, pregnancy test, typhoid test, genotype and PCV among other tests, and these are the common tests people run around spending money to do,” said Roy.
Akinkunmi Tolu, the chief medical laboratory scientist, said the medical equipment are vital in boosting diagnosis in pregnant women and children, who contact respiratory tract infection and other diseases.
According to Tolu, the new equipment will help ensure that proper tests and treatment would be administered rather than trying different types of medication that puts lives at risk.
