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By Agatha Emeadi
No fewer than 500 elderly persons have received medical care at the 6th Annual Free Medical Outreach organised by the Gladys Fagbemi Elderly Care Foundation in Surulere, Lagos.
The outreach provided beneficiaries with free medical consultations, blood pressure and blood sugar screenings, eye examinations, prescription medications, reading glasses, and palliative packages aimed at improving their health and well-being.
Medical professionals, including doctors, optometrists, nurses and other healthcare workers, attended to beneficiaries throughout the exercise, which attracted residents from Surulere and neighbouring communities such as Shitta and Akerele.
Speaking with journalists, the founder of the foundation, Mrs. Aderele Fagbemi, popularly known as “Mama’s Child,” said the annual outreach was instituted to preserve the humanitarian legacy of her late mother, Mrs. Gladys Fagbemi, a retired nurse whose passion was caring for the elderly.
She explained that this year’s outreach also coincided with the third memorial of her late sister, Pastor Aderele Fagbemi-Lamaye.
“Today, we are celebrating the legacy of my late mother, Gladys Fagbemi, and the three-year memorial of my sister, Pastor Aderele Fagbemi-Lamaye,” she said.
“My mother devoted her life to nursing and was deeply passionate about caring for elderly people. To preserve that legacy, we established the Gladys Fagbemi Elderly Care Foundation. It gives us great joy to put smiles on the faces of elderly members of our community.”
According to her, the outreach has become an annual event through which the family continues to honour the values of compassion, service and community care that their late mother exemplified.
Mrs. Fagbemi said approximately 500 beneficiaries were registered and attended to by a team comprising eight medical doctors, four optometrists, a matron and four nurses.
She said that the outreach has remained fully funded by members of the Fagbemi family since its inception.
Mrs. Fagbemi used the occasion to call for stronger collaboration between government and private individuals in improving healthcare delivery, stressing that quality healthcare should not be left to the government alone.
Beneficiaries who spoke with Sunday Sun including: Pa Ade Kayode, Mrs. Mary Irabor, among others expressed appreciation to the foundation for the initiative, describing it as timely and impactful
The Gladys Fagbemi Elderly Care Foundation has continued to provide free healthcare services and welfare support to elderly residents in Surulere through its annual medical outreach, reinforcing its commitment to promoting healthy living, preventive healthcare and compassionate community service.
