By Ebele Onuorah

AT least 500 members of the residents of  Idimu community in Lagos have benefited from the annual free healthcare services offered by the Kingdom of Light Ministry in collaboration with its Medicare group.

The health service carried out, weekend, and spearheaded by Mr Uchechukwu B. Nwogu, President of the Ministry’s Medicare Group, included lectures and health checks to educate the community on ailments such as diabetes and hypertension that remain increasingly rampant in society today.

Many specialised health workers were available to attend to the needs of the community. They included medical officers, pharmacists and nurses. Nwogu said: “Most people are ignorant of these ailments and we believe that carrying out this lecture cum free health service to the needy in the church and community at large would go a long way to lift certain burdens of people as well as make them aware and gain the knowledge to cope with and maintain their present health conditions.”

Also speaking, a medic, Dr. Uche Alaefula said different tests including blood pressure and randomblood sugar tests to determine and monitor the diabetic and hypertensive. Eye checks were also done.

“When God created man, man was safe up until he sinned and was banished from the Garden of Eden and then became contaminated.” Alaefula noted.

Explaining this he said irrespective of the different causes of ailments, man predisposes and acquires most of these ailments by their way of life. He therefore urged for inculcation of fruits and vegetables to our everyday living.

Another medic, Dr Adeoti Adeyemo said stress predisposes to stress. “I have come to realise that hypertension causes in Nigeria are equal to stress and salt.” He urged the community to go for check up regularly instead of waiting till they are physically weak.

Also, he likened our bodies and ailment to food being prepared with excess water which ends up turning spoilt and of no use. He said that it goes the same when we have excess glucose in the body than is needed,it syarts to trigger reactions that are dangerous to one’s health.