NGO Donates Blood Pressure Measurement Facilities To Imo Community

Lifting Hands Initiatives
(LHI), a United States-based Non-Governmental Organisation, has donated 30 blood pressure measurement facilities worth N1.6 million to Amakohia community in Imo State.
founder of the NGO, Mrs Juliet Amadi, said the gesture was to assist the people monitor their health condition.
Amadi, a medical practitioner in the US, noted that most people hardly monitored their blood pressure.
“The machines would help these rural dwellers to avert incidents of sudden death associated with high or low blood pressure.
“The donation is to ensure that the machines are used without paying any money to anybody,’’ she said.
According to her, the machines will be kept in designated places, where all the citizens of the community will have easy access to them.
She urged the traditional ruler of the community, Chief Boniface Chibundu, not to allow those in custody of the machines politicise their usage.
Amadi said the NGO’s major target was to make citizens become conscious of their health status, by assisting the rural communities with medical equipment.
Speaking, the traditional ruler of the community, Chibundu, thanked the organisation for touching the lives of the rural community.
He said the community had recorded high casualty as a result of high and low blood pressure.