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Takwa Bay Residents Seeks Urgent Medical Intervention
-Takwa Bay residents in Lagos, calls for urgent medical intervention from govt and private organisations
-Residents noted that the only community clinic has no drugs
-Residents lamented the lack of medical personnel in the community clinic
Residents of Takwa Bay community, an island in Lagos State, have called for an urgent medical intervention from government and private organisations to boost quality health and reduce mortality rate. Although there are two medical centres in the community, residents said personnel are usually not available or don’t even have the needed drugs to cater for the community.
One of the residents, Adeniyi Elisabeth, said: “We have a gigantic building called an hospital or clinic, but if you go there, no one is there to attend to you. Sometimes when you take your kids there during an emergency, there are no drugs, not even paracetamol.”
Elisabeth made this known during a medical outreach to Takwa Bay by the Jewels Ladies Foundation. She added that there were times medical attendants close as early as 2:00p.m. and wont attend to anyone after then.
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“In a way, we are dying on this island because we lack proper medical attention. I believe health issues should be paramount. We should at least constantly have a doctor or nurse in the hospital. We have resorted to using a chemist in the community,” she added.
Lauding efforts of the foundation, Elisabeth said tests were carried out and drugs given without payment. Another resident that simply identified himself as Prophet Jeremiah said: “We want the government and private medical teams to always check on us because the weather condition here is not favourable for children and fever is a common ailment.
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Founder, Jewels Ladies Foundation, Ihotu Eritosin-Gregory, decried the neglect of the community and residents inadequate access to quality healthcare. “We discovered this since we began our outreach here two years ago. There is only one General Hospital in the community. We started mentoring girls and the medical outreach gave us the opportunity to reach the families of our mentees,” she added.
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