Three mobile clinics donated by Rotary International on HWN HUMANITY

The Rotary International has donated three mobile clinics valued at N20 million to scale the hurdles to polio eradication and boost health care in disadvantaged areas in the country.

The mobile clinics were bought through donation from Rotary international, District 9125, Rotary Foundation, and Rotarians in India.

Making the presentation to the Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Ado Muhammed, yesterday in Abuja, the District Governor, Rotary 9125, Dr Mike Omotosho, said the donation of the mobile clinics goes beyond the cost but the significance of it.

According to him, the mobile clinics will enable health workers to actually go round many communities as possible, have access to hard-to-reach areas where ordinarily, health care services would not have been available.

He said, "it is so much about the cost but the significance that we understand the plight of the people. They have other needs beyond polio eradication alone, so that even after polio eradication, they will appreciate the health care we have been able to bring to them in their communities.

The chairman, Nigerian National Polio Plus Committee, Dr Tunji Funsho, said the mobile clinics will contribute to ensure no child is missed.

Source: Leadership, HWN Africa.