Over 70 Persons Benefit From Odika Free Medical Outreach

Over 70 residents in the aviation community over the weekend benefited from the Herbert Odika foundation free medical outreach held at the Church of Faith Bible Ministry, Ikeja, Lagos.

Held in conjunction with RToutreach Helping Hands Foundation in Lagos for the aviation community, twenty persons were given free eye glasses after examination while over 50 persons were also examined of different ailments. Others were subjected to blood tests of various kinds and drugs administered to the needy.

One of the beneficiaries of the eye glasses Regina Oweh, commended the Herbert Odika foundation for the gesture, urging governments at all levels to make health facilities available for the reach of the common man in the society.

Speaking with the foundation Chairman, who is also the Senior Pastor Church of Faith Bible Ministry Lagos, Herbert Odika admonished religious leaders in the country to concentrate on the welfare of their members to alleviate their sufferings especially during hard times and to do away with personal luxuries.

Odika said the free medical outreach was organized for the aviation community as a way of giving back to the society and was opened to everyone no matter religion or age.

According to Odika, “this is the time for churches to leave beautified structure, automobiles and the fancy glamour that comes around the church to face the welfare of the people.  That is what the church is all about.”

Odika said he was challenged by the hard economic situation in the country as a lot of people  could not afford pain relief medicines and basic medication. Hence the invited experts have brought some medications for free for the people.

According to Odika the free medical outreach marked the first edition but intends to have another larger edition in the new year.

He noted that the church was supposed to provide solutions to challenges and issues adding that whatever a church received ought to be ploughed back to the society. Hence they are not laced by the government.

Odika said the church ought to be alternative to the government to assist people in their career path and well being to encourage people to donate to the church when they see evidence of the money being judiciously used.

He said the free medical outreach was not done to get favour from people but to develop the people and appealed to other churches as it was the best time to help the people in need.

Odika noted that the price of drugs had gone up with over 50% and urged governments to bring in companies to invest in the health sector and sell drugs to the low class as there is only the elite and poor in the country today. He also revealed that his church would feed over 300 people every week in December without discrimination.

He called on the government to come up with pension schemes for retired people and people that have never worked in their lives adding that it was the responsibility of the government to take care of them.