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THE Enugu Sports Club on Monday inaugurated its first medical clinic since its establishment in 1929 with a call on Nigerians to take their general health seriously.
Speaking at the event in Enugu, the Chairman of the club, Mr Victor Atuonwu, said it was only proper that a club where various sporting activities were held daily should also have a functional medical facility where members and their families could obtain prompt medical attention.
The chairman noted that the clinic had been equipped with medical personnel and modern devices to carry out various vital tests and also provide counselling and treatment for several ailments.
He thanked members that made contributions to the clinic including Mr Afam Udeani, CEO Famzy Pharmaceuticals who donated an oxygen concentrator and Mr Kingsley Eze, a real estate mogul, who donated a device to revive failing heartbeat to the clinic.
Atuonwu solicited more assistance from the club members and other good-spirited citizens to ensure the continued upgrade of staff and facilities at the clinic.
Inaugurating the clinic, the renowned real estate mogul and IT expert, Mr Kingsley Eze, decried the poor attitude of many Nigerians towards their general health and physical condition in particular.
Eze lamented that many Nigerians both young and old had continued to suffer avoidable deaths or ailments due to their nonchalance towards their health.
He charged Nigerians to make conscious efforts to engage in physical activities and apply other basic measures that would enhance their health and fitness in order to achieve longer lives and more productivity.
Eze, who was accompanied by the former Minister of Aviation, Chief Osita Chidoka amongst others, commended the club leadership under Mr Atuonwu for the vision and wisdom to establish the clinic.
According to him, it will not only help save lives of members but also offers them the assurance that medical assistance is always available at the club.
The business mogul and his companions pledged to give the club a defillibrator (device used to restore normal heartbeat) in a week’s time while partnering the club towards the continued improvement of the Clinic as well as the promotion of good health, and physical fitness.
Also speaking, the Chairman of the Medical Committee of the Club, Dr. Chinedu Nwajiobi thanked the Club Chairman for “finally bringing to fruition the long- lasting desire of members to have a medical clinic at the club.
He noted that the absence of a medical facility at the club had not only discouraged members from participating in helpful physical activities but also dissuaded prospective members from joining.
Nwajiobi stressed that the rising spate of sudden deaths across the country had made the establishment of medical facilities anywhere that sporting activities were carried on, an inescapable imperative.
According to him, with majority of members of the Enugu Sports Club being above 50 years of age, the absence of a functional clinic to handle any such medical emergency and others would have proven disastrous.
Nwajiobi called for the support of the Club’s friends and patrons towards the prompt procurement of difilibrators and other devices that could be used to resuscitate victims of cardiac arrests and similar incidents which he noted, “could occur at anytime and to anyone”.
Highlights of the occasion were the cutting of the tape and the unveiling of a commemorative plaque heralding the commissioning of the Clinic. (NAN)
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September 5, 2023 @ 6:06 GMT|
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