Health Service Providers Gift Drugs, Mosquito Nets, Others to Lagos Community
Ugo Aliogo
To combat malaria and promote community health, Green Life Pharmaceuticals, Clearline HMO, Clinix Healthcare, and Green Life Hospital have partnered to donate mosquito nets, free tests, and treatments to residents of the Iwaya community in Yaba, Lagos.
Speaking at the event to present them, the General Manager, Sales and Marketing, Clearline HMO, Olaoye Olubukola, said the outreach to commemorate World Malaria Day was aimed at helping the community reduce malaria-related morbidity and mortality rates.
“The purpose here is to help residents of Iwaya community to reduce the risk of having malaria to the barest minimum. And that is why we’re speaking with the people, doing tests, treatments, giving drugs and mosquito nets to them. Malaria is deadly and we must minimise the risk for them,” Olubukola said.
Head of Marketing and Sales, Clinix Healthcare, Folake Obatoyinbo, who cited the rising cost of living in Nigeria, said preventing malaria is more economical than managing it.
She averred the propensity of contracting malaria in the community is quite high, hence, the importance of urging residents of the community to keep their drainages and environment clean as well as timely usage of mosquito-treated nets being handed to them.
The General Manager, Sales and Marketing at Green Life Pharmaceuticals, Derrick Osondi, remarked that the companies involved in the outreach have been consistent in their commitment to combating malaria, prioritising the people’s health over profits.
He said: “Yes we do sell anti-malaria drugs and our main products are anti-malaria, but we don’t want to be seen as a company that is only interested in profit. We are also interested in people, so if there is anything we can do to prevent malaria so that people don’t have to die from it, we’ll do it. It’s people above profit.”
Also, the Olu of Iwaya, Oba Suleiman Owolabi Ogun-Oloko, who noted that flooding and blocked drainages are the major causes of malaria in the community, said the intervention of the health companies will be impactful.
