The FCT Chairperson of the Women optometrist in Nigeria (WON) Dr Nibhoje Udom has call on well to do Nigerian (philanthropist), Govt agencies and other organisation to partner WON in other to reach out to millions of Nigerian out there that needs eye care services especially in rural communities , according to her WON cannot do alone.
Dr.Udom stated this on at the weekend during the association free eye care outreach in Dogon -Gada Community in Lokogoma district of Abuja Municipal Area Council of FCT where over 300 persons were provided with free eye care services.let me use this medium to thanks WON members for their contributions toward this Outreach and am pleased for all their support.
Women Optometrists in Nigeria (WON), founded in 1998, is an umbrella body representing female Doctors of Optometry across the 36 states of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The primary objective is to take eye care to the grassroots and ensure that no one is left out, especially women and children in the underserved parts of the country.
Their primary objective is to take eye care to the grassroots and ensure that no one is left out, especially women and children in the underserved parts of the country..
Vice Chairperson FCT WON, Dr Cynthia Okoro who double as the Outreach Committee Head, call on Government to provide Clinic and other essentials to the Community she commended the Community Leaders for mobilizing people for a successful outreach and stressed important for public not to engage in activities that will cause danger to their eye which is very important in life.
“We are also ready to provide services to any individual or orgànisation that will partner with us for the free eye Care for our people in large scale, Dr Okoro Said.
Two of the beneficiaries of the free eye care and Community Leaders of Dogon Gada , Rev Ngavah Ayuba and Ambassador Mazi Onyeka Nwandu thanks WON for the Outreach, we ” “remain grateful to WON and we call on Other Associations to emulate them. Highlights was health talks on precautions against things that will lead to blindness and over three hundred eye glasses and drugs worth million of naira for the eye patients after Examination by the WON personnel.
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