By Ben Adoga
General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye and his wife, Folu Adeboye yesterday donated a Dialysis Centre to the Wuse District Hospital, Abuja.
The Centre named after Pastor Adeboye, popularly known as Daddy G.O is equipped with eight dialysis machines, one medical water reverse osmosis purification system, and one 30 KVA generator.
While unveiling the project, the FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijani Aliyu commended the church leader leadership for the choice of a lifesaving project at this time of a rising number of cases of kidney disease, stressing that the church was beginning to play one of its crucial roles of caring for the downtrodden in the society.
Aliyu noted that kidney disease when detected early could be managed and corrected, just as she advocated for subsidised dialysis cost in view of the economic realities.
The Minister revealed that the FCT Administration in response to rising incidences of chronic kidney disease, by 2013 operated two public dialysis and intensive care units in district hospitals at Wuse and Asokoro respectively.
She used the occasion to call on the Nigerian Association of Nephrology and all other health stakeholders to intensify public enlightenment activities including education on lifestyle changes, control of orthodox and traditional drugs abuse to prevent and control kidney diseases and other non-communicable diseases.
“March 2, each year is the world kidney day and this allows for awareness creation and free testing for early detection of kidney disease, especially in clients with hypertension and diabetes. weight, urea, electrolytes, creatinine and cholesterol levels checks with an evaluation of proteins in urine among others are additional tests necessary for early detection of kidney disease,” she stressed.
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On his part, the Intercontinental Overseer, Christian Social Responsibility of the church, Pastor Idowu Iluyomade, revealed that the Abuja dialysis centre would be the 20th in the series of specialised medical interventions including intensive care unit, dialysis centres, cancer screening centre and primary healthcare centres donated by the church.
He also stressed that to date the Enoch and Folu Adeboye dialysis centre has donated 37 dialysis machines in Nigeria, adding that the centre has conducted over 30,000 subsidised and free dialysis sessions to date and partnered to carry out six kidney transplants for free.
According to him, “In 2021, the foundation donated a full-fledged dialysis centre to the Olabisi Onabanjo State Teaching Hospital Shagamu. 106 patients have benefitted from this facility.
