In order to improve health services in rural areas, Procter & Gamble’s Pampers Mobile Clinic has berthed in Kokona community in Garaku Local Government area of Nasarawa State.

The Mobile Clinic, a part of P&G’s corporate social responsibility drive is an advisory “Clinic-on-wheels” programme designed to meet mothers and babies, right where they live. The clinic is taken to mothers and babies in semi-urban areas where challenges such as finance, transportation, education and inaccessibility of facilities are usually a hindrance to taking the best care of their babies.

The mobile clinic in Nasarawa, which comprised  a team of medical practitioners, led by Dr. Eze Ifeoma docked at the market square in Kokona and witnessed an influx of hundreds of young mothers who trooped there to be attended to. The mothers who were  grateful for the free baby care/hygiene education, health checks and diaper samples said that the initiative has helped them to know how better to take care of their babies, a statement from the company said.

Mrs. Ogbemi Kesiena, Brands operations manager of P&G West Africa, said  “Pampers Mobile Clinic is part of the broader P&G purpose of touching and improving lives.

Busola Adetosoye, Public Relations Manager, P&G, said the Mobile Clinic forms an integral part of the “Live, Learn, and Thrive”, the company’s global corporate social responsibility platform, which focuses on the development of children in need between the ages of zero and thirteen years.