In addition to discharging the primary duty of caring for the people within the confines of the hospital, the Association of Resident Doctors of the Lagos State Teaching Hospital (ARD LASUTH) Ikeja, offered free wellness/mental health motivation, free eye and ear checks, oral and general health screening to no fewer than one hundred and twenty six students at the Lagos State Correctional Centre for Boys located at Oregun, Lagos.
The free healthcare is part of the activities to commemorate the association’s 2015 ARD LASUTH 8th Scientific Conference and Annual General Meeting with the theme: Postgraduate Medical Training: Myths, Facts and The Winning Approach.
Speaking, president of the association, LASUTH chapter, Dr Sa’eid Ahmad said, “We feel that given the peculiarity of the society that we have, many more people out there need medical attention than the number that can actually find their way into the hospital; against this background, the ARD LASUTH has embarked upon free medical outreach programmes in different communities and parastatals. However, we feel there are some of them who are not routinely remembered with this kind of programme yet, they have a right to living healthy and having the best that life can offer.
“The society does not need people who will turn to the larger society sick than they were when they were at the correctional facility. The children at the correctional centre need proper eye check up even as we talk of children who have no parents who are going to be caring enough to know whether they see well or not and these children will be regarded dull in their classes and the main problem is that the child can’t see well or read because there’s a defect in the sight, that’s why we have incorporated in this programme the eye check as a main feature for the medical outreach,” Ahmad said. The principal of the centre, Mr Lukmon Ikotun said, though the boys go through a more comprehensive rehabilitation process yet they need medical attention.
Appreciating the doctors, Ikotun said, the centre has juvenile who are between the ages of ten and seventeen.
“Basically, a lot of them are brought in from the street of Lagos and some of them are children in conflict with the law and we have those who needed shelter; probably as a result of abuse from the family or parents. With collaboration with different groups, we have medical treatment for the boys every quarter and it’s a good thing for the centre because most of them are from the street. You can imagine the kind of bad hygiene they will have before coming to the centre and this kind of programme will assist them to improve on their personal hygiene,” he said.
Daily Times reports that other activities lined up for scientific conference/AGM include annual voluntary blood donation exercise by LASUTH doctors, public lecture, dissolution of outgoing executives and election of new executive members and dinner/award night.
By: Lara Adejoro
Daily Times News
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