By Olusegun Olanrewaju
The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) yesterday promised to continue partnering with needy communities to upgrade facilities in their neighbourhood.
The National Capoon, Abiola Owoaje, made the pledge in Lagos at a medical outreach programme to help the needy at the Ikota Primary Healthcare Centre in the Ajah-Lekki axis of the state.
The NAS leader said the organisation was holding the programme because of its relevance to the needs of the people, and following the revelation that the government could not alone meet the health challenges of the people.
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Owoaje disclosed that the confraternity had been holding the outreach for long, but that this year’s programme was deliberately shifted to Lagos because of the importance.
He added that, as a humanity-rooted organisation, was only embarking on the project to better a lot of the people and to get them more focused.
In his own submission on the mission of the body in medical outreach, the Abuja chapter capoon of NAS, Uchenna, noted that the programme had been piloted for 13 years, starting in 2010.
He said the idea was to get the programme across communities across Nigeria by bringing healthcare to their doorsteps.
“We are committed to meeting the needs of the people,” Uchenna said.
Amplifying on that, the Lagos Chapter capoon of NAS, Pius Isimen, said the programme was conceived because “we feel we need to take care of the health and welfare of communities.”
At the occasion, the NAS medical team with branded T-shirts indicating ‘To create; To inform; To Treat’, distributed medicals, including drugs, creams powder, oral suspension, and even packs of soft drinks.
A member of the mission also disclosed to newsmen that other ailments, including breast cancer examination, were also treated upon examination by a medical team, one of them spotting sportswear with the inscription, ‘I’m taking action to save a name’.
Participants spoke of a good outing and organisation.
“My child is sick, and in an emergency. I brought him here and he was examined and I was given these drugs,” she told a reporter.
