Lagos community benefits from medical outreach

Hundreds of Abule Oja community residents in Lagos State have benefited from the ongoing medical outreach fully funded by AXA Mansard Health Limited.

The outreach, according to Tope Adeniyi, CEO of AXA Mansard Health Limited, is another way by the company to demonstrate its commitment to total wellness for everyone.

According to Adeniyi, AXA Mansard Health is committed to universal health coverage, saying while it is working with national institutions to midwife this in Nigeria, it is also putting its resources behind ongoing community development initiatives that combine preventative health education with medical tests and distribution of mosquito nets.

“For us at AXA Mansard Health, universal health coverage is an important topic. We are convinced that healthcare should be accessible, available and affordable. And it should be accessible to everyone notwithstanding their socio-economic, geographic and educational status.

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“So this medical outreach is another in the series of programmes we have listed to improve community health this year. You will recall that early in the year, we donated medical equipment to general hospitals in remote areas across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria.

“We are not relenting. We are poised to do more. It is our wish that wellness is ubiquitous anywhere you turn in Nigeria. And we are embarking on this journey one community at a time,” he said.

The Chief Marketing Officer of AXA Mansard, Adebola Surakat, said the initiative is delivered under the AXA Hearts in Action programme.

Reacting to the initiative, Alhaji Otunbade Nurudeen, the Abule Oja Community Development Association chairman, thanked AXA Mansard for considering the community for such a laudable initiative.