The Federal Capital Space Management on Wednesday commenced the screening of 250,000 citizens for high blood pressure and diabetes.
The screening workout is in sequence with the “Project 10 million -Know your number, control your number” taking playground national to battle the emerging occurrence of non-communicable sicknesses, specifically high blood pressure and diabetes, in Nigeria.
Talking throughout the graduation of the screening workout on the FCTA Secretariat in Abuja, the Mandate Secretary for FCT Condition Products and services and Shape Secretariat, Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe, famous that the challenge was once triggered via emerging instances of apparently wholesome people slumping to their deaths, including that information confirmed that one in 27 Nigerians suffered from hypertension.
She added that the challenge, scheduled to secure till November 6, 2024, will snatch playground around the six branch councils of the FCT, and will probably be prolonged to hard-to-reach communities, to safeguard the condition and well-being of citizens within the rural communities.
“We began noticing that community have been slumping and loss of life. The velocity of non-communicable sicknesses goes prime. We have been focusing a batch on HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis. However rapidly, younger community are losing useless, and used community who have been differently wholesome within the morning, would stoop within the afternoon.
“At autopsy, we have been realising that community had undiagnosed center sicknesses, which is a complication of undiagnosed high blood pressure. High blood pressure is an excessively treatable condition if stuck early. Diabetes is an excessively treatable condition if stuck early.
“Out of every 27 Nigerians, one person is hypertensive, this is recorded. Now, we are trying to look for all these people, educate them, and give them medication, so that their quality of life, their output at work, and in the end, the GDP of the nation would be improved. The essence of this program also is that people find it hard to leave their workplace where they get money, their markets, and their farms, to go to the hospital to check. We are taking this project 10 million to the doorstep of people, where they live, where they work, where they play”, she stated.
Fasawe additional mentioned that healthcare supply within the FCT had considerably advanced beneath FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, as evidenced via stories from the screened civil servants on the Secretariat.
“If certainly inside of this Secretariat, we’re discovering customary readings, the danger components for hypertension come with tension, sleeplessness, weight problems, people historical past, and sedentary way of life. What it method is that the majority folks right here, don’t fall into that. If you happen to paintings for Barrister Nyesom Wike, it’s not most likely that you’ve a sedentary way of life.
“Working under Barrister Wike’s leadership emphasises an active lifestyle, helping to reduce the risk factors associated with non-communicable diseases,” she stated.
The Performing Director of the FCT Condition Insurance coverage Scheme, Dr Salma Belgore additionally introduced that the FCT will adopt the price of condition products and services for a pregnant lady, Mrs Esther Omojo, till a presen then the start of her child. She defined that the insurance coverage would safeguard clinical consultations, medication, supply, or even surgical procedure.
“Our patient will benefit from medical consultation, lab investigations, her drugs, her delivery and even if she has to have surgery, it is all covered by the health insurance scheme, at no cost to her. The FCT Administration is enrolling her under the health insurance scheme, as well as all FCT residents. With the unborn baby, and a year after the baby is born, the baby is also going to be covered under the health insurance scheme, and will access medicines, medical consultations, and laboratory investigations at no cost to the mother or the baby,” she stated.