Foundation Advises Senior Citizens on Health Consciousness
Axios Senior Citizens Foundation, an NGO, has advised senior citizens to be health conscious, if they desire to live long.
Mr Aliyu Habibu, a member, Board of Trustees of the foundation, gave this advice during a medical outreach for senior citizens at Kubwa PW axis, a suburb of Abuja, Federal Capital Teritory (FCT), on Saturday.
Habibu said that the foundation was set up due to the fact that medical care was not easily accessible for the elderly.
He explained that the NGO was establised to bridge the gap between what government could afford for the senior citizens and what they were lacking.
“Our main role here today is to get people to be conscious of their health.
“We need to bridge the gab between what government can afford and what is lacking, that is the main purpose of setting up this foundation to look at the elderly.
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“I know it is a bit different in Nigeria because we look after our elderly, but in the western world, they don’t actually do that, the government takes over as soon as the elderly get to a certain age when they can no longer look after themselves.
“The government takes over and start looking after the elderly ones and pay those people who do this job for them.
“Here in Nigeria, there are a lot of elderly people who have no access to medical care facilities.
“These elders are too old, some of them cannot afford the cost of the medical care. We’ll want to bridge that gap, so we set up this foundation principally targeted at the elderly in a community.
“I am not saying there is no hospital, but access to medical facilities are not just answerable for these elderly people,” he said.
