SOME vulnerable residents of Zugu-Kushibo, a farming community in the Tolon/Kumbungu District of the Northern Region, are to benefit from free medical care under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
This follows the payment of the premium of 275 people in the community by a US-based Christian organisation, Atlas Cowboy First Baptist Church, in collaboration with their local partners in the district, Tarikpaa Baptist Church.
The organisation had earlier donated a grinding mill at a cost of $2,300 dollars to the community to reduce the fatigue of the women who walked a distance of about 12 kilometres before getting access to a mill.
According to the team leader of the US Church, Cheryl Read, the intervention was a demonstration of the church's social responsibilities to communities in which it operated.
She explained that the registration exercise, which was estimated at $1,500, was aimed, among other reasons, at making health service accessible and affordable to the people of the community, majority of whom were poor.
“It also forms part of our humanitarian assistance to needy societies, which were hardest hit by poverty, hunger and diseases,” she added.
Ms Read underscored the need for religious organisations to develop not only the spiritual realm of their members, but also their physical and psychological well-being to prepare them adequately to face future challenges.
She further explained that women and children formed the main focus of their intervention, because they bore the brunt of the sufferings and deprivations in the community.
The leader expressed the church's commitment to solicit more assistance to enable it to put up a health centre for the people in the area.
She entreated other benevolent organisations to complement their efforts to help improve on the lot of the people.
An executive member of Tarikpaa Baptist Church, Mr Paul Napare, said the exercise was also to demonstrate to the beneficiaries the love of Jesus Christ especially to the poor and to put smiles on their faces.
Mr Napare stated that the beneficiaries of the exercise were members of the families whose children worshipped with the church.
He appealed to the community members to take advantage of the exercise to improve their health conditions in order to reduce child and infant mortality in the area.
Mr Napare thanked their benefactors for their humanitarian gesture and promised to put all assistance offered them to judicious use.
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