Health
Medical Outreach: Prioritise Primary Health Care policies-Pastor Ikotun Urges Government
Joel Ajayi
Resident Pastor of the Elevation Church Abuja, Pastor Bowale Ikotun, has urged the government to establish more primary health care centre to strengthen its policies in various communities, to be able to attend to health emergencies in the community.
He made this call on Saturday during a free medical outreach, organised by the Elevation Church Abuja and PISTIS Foundation, known as UBOMI Project Abuja, which took place at Jabi Lake Park Abuja.
Pastor Ikotu, said that the purpose of organising the outreach is to meet the needs of the community and help residents acquire free medical services.
“We all know what is going on currently in Nigeria, where the cost of even Primary Health Care has gone up out of the reach of the common man, and so as a church, God has put in our hearts to be a blessing to our community”.
“So one of the ways in which we are a blessing to the community is to organize doctors, nurses within us and friends amongst us to come and do free medical consultation, most importantly in the primary health care area of health.”
He further urged other religious organisations, non governmental organisations to try to organise outreach that adds to the wellbeing of individuals in the community in order to support the government.
“The truth of the matter is that the government cannot do it alone, and that is why, we as a church, we are coming up to assist the Government in whatever way we can “.”So I encourage a lot of other religious organizations to be part and parcel of this”.
Head of partnership for the UBOMI Project Abuja Mr Davidson Amedu, said the Elevation Church Abuja is expressing the love of God through the UBOMI Project.
“We are partnering with Pistis Foundation, which is a registered organization under the Elevation Church to enable tye Church help people with medical solutions.
“We understand the health situation of the country. Not everybody right now can afford medical supplies. In fact, there is also a short supply of medical experts in the country right now, and the few that are available, very scarce, to even the average middle class person, talk more of the underserved and the underprivileged.”
“So we decided to bridge the gap to create such a project that intervenes, that steps in to give medical solutions, ranging from diagnosis to counseling to consultation to medical and pharmaceutical supplies itself, all for free. Nobody is paying a dime here”.
“This is our way of saying God loves you, God wants you to be well. Not everybody’s level is fit to the point where they can do without medicine, and saying I trust God for healing or divine health”.
“We pray for people, we administer healing, but we still believe that medicine has its role, place and position in humans life so we are able to help people move from wherever they are medically to a more balanced and more healthy disposition.”
He also expressed that this is the first edition of UBOMI Project in Abuja but it’s going to have other edition to come in the near future.
“The Elevation Church has its headquarters in Lagos, and we’ve donbe series of UBOMI Project editions, where we cater for 1000s of people.”
” In Lagos, we even do surgeries, we do major operations, but this is the first we are doing in Abuja, and it is not going to be the last, obviously, because we have seen that there is a gap.”
“There is a huge gap in even accessing medical supplies and medical solutions are even more expensive in abuja. So we want to be able to, deliver some of these solutions to people for free.”
“look out for more editions of this project across the Country and in other parts of Africa, we will do much more to the glory of God” he added.
Executive Director, Pistis Foundation, Mr Leanord F-Thomas, said that Ubomi Project is taking a hospital to a community, with medical experts, from different parts of the country and volunteers to serve for a certain period.
He said the UBOMI medical outreach is structured to work with social and governmental organisations to provide data of advocacy, preventive healthcare risk.
He further express that the data gathered enables them to know the highest cases of illness in the community and ways to prefer solutions to those cases.
“So those data are gathered, it helps us to know, for example, you know, how many cases of malaria in a certain community, how many cases of diabetes are in a certain community? Not only do we treat the cases during the outreach, we’re able to profile solutions”.
“So we are here to support whatever it is that the government has established to address the ills in society.”
Health
My Herbal Medicines Are Well Accepted Across The Globe, Prof Amodu Reveals
By David Maxwell
One of Nigeria’s leading voices in the support and propagation of herbal medicine, Professor Benjamin Amodu has revealed that his herbal medicines are widely accepted across the globe.
He made this revelation while speaking to our reporter at his laboratory in Abuja.
Amodu, known for his herbal cure for serveral communicable and non-communicable diseases like malaria, asthma, diabetes, enlarged heart, various cancers, chronic kidney disease even into the end stage, has boldly revealed that his herbal products enjoy a huge acceptance across the globe.
“Our medications are well accepted, both at home here in Nigeria and abroad too.
“This is because we’ve been sending our medicines not only to countries within the African continent, but also countries in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, America and even Oceania.
“We usually send our herbal medicines to Ghana, Cameroon, Egypt, South Africa and many other African countries, and even to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the United Kingdom, USA, France, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Canada and virtually everywhere around the world without any issues.
“We have been sending them to these places via DHL and we haven’t had any issues whatsoever.”
Amodu also spoke of the wide acceptance his his herbal medicines have been enjoying at home here in Nigeria.
He said, “even though we may not have had the support anymore expects from the government, but the Nigerian people are not waiting for the government to tell them to either accept our medications or not.
“Since many patients we have treated with our products and get cured of the ailments keep talking about and announcing for others to know, we haven’t had a short supply of patients who either come to us themselves or through family members and other caregivers.
“So if the USA, UK, Canada and all these other countries can accept our treatment, plus those at home here in Nigeria, then I can confidently say that my products are well recognized and accepted across the world.”
Having spent about four decades researching into Traditional, Complimentary and Alternative Medicine, TCAM, with scores of papers published in reputable health journals and peer reviewed, Amodu, a professor of phytomedicine from the Triune Biblical University, USA, is no doubt a leading advocate for alternative medicine.
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