AYV News, November 26, 2024
Healthcare for the Aged, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the health and well-being of older adults, over the weekend provided free healthcare and eye care services to over three hundreds and forty-five old people at Femi Turner and its environs in the Western Peninsular of Freetown.
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Healthcare for the Aged, Mohamed S. Bah said: “Our mission as a National NGO Organization is to support and advocate for maintaining the rights of the aged and promote their dignity through policy, advocacy, and strategic actions for their livelihood promotion. The main aim is to provide wholesome health care support to the aged who cannot afford the cost and access to medication in hard-to-reach areas in Sierra Leone”.
He called on government and other stakeholders to support the organisation’s initiative so as to help save the sight of the aged, adding that whenever they are referred to the hospital, it is the Organisation that foots their medical bills.
Mr. Bah went on that the service is done weekly in various selected communities within the country, while thanking his team of professional health practitioners for participating in the endeavor and to the beneficiaries who showed up.
He assured that they will continue to deliver on their objectives to provide healthcare services to vulnerable aged across the country.
At the past weekend’s event, the Organisation, with its professional medical doctors, provided free medical to the aged, including Eye Screening, Diabetes tests, Blood Pressurechecks, Rapid Malaria tests and also provided free Glasses to thirty aged.
They also do referrals of twenty patients to the Connaught hospital and out of the thirty patients attended to, fourteen of them needed Cataract Surgery, eleven has suspected Glaucoma and 5 with Refractive Error respectively.
