{"id":63627,"date":"2025-04-01T12:14:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63627"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:14:47","slug":"nas-brings-free-healthcare-to-abuja-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/01\/nas-brings-free-healthcare-to-abuja-community\/","title":{"rendered":"NAS Brings Free Healthcare to Abuja Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a bid to bridge the healthcare gap in underserved areas, the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), Pyrates Confraternity (Sahara Deck), organized a free medical outreach in Dakibiu community, Jabi, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative provided hundreds of residents with medical checkups, consultations, and essential medications at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, NAS Sahara Deck President, Chike Onyia, emphasized the urgent need for accessible healthcare in the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand the challenges faced by Dakibiu residents. There are no health facilities here, so we stepped in to help ease that burden and promote better health,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Onyia also urged the government to establish permanent healthcare centers and infrastructure to improve the quality of life in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Dakibiu\u2019s chief, Yakubu Lamish, lauded NAS for the intervention, noting that the outreach provided critical medical services to those who would otherwise struggle to access care.<\/p>\n<p>Beneficiaries also expressed gratitude, with Mrs. Joy Akor calling the initiative a \u201clifesaver.\u201d \u201cI got free consultation and medicine today, and I\u2019m truly grateful,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sahara Deck\u2019s medical focal person, Afahaene Nimekung, reaffirmed the association\u2019s commitment to supporting healthcare delivery in rural and suburban communities. \u201cMany Nigerians face significant challenges in accessing quality healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This outreach is our way of alleviating some of those burdens while drawing attention to the community\u2019s needs,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>The NAS medical outreach underscores the importance of collective efforts in improving public health.<\/p>\n<p>With more initiatives like this, the goal of universal healthcare access in Nigeria moves one step closer to reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu In a bid to bridge the healthcare gap in underserved areas, the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), Pyrates Confraternity (Sahara Deck), organized a free medical outreach in Dakibiu community, Jabi, Abuja. The initiative provided hundreds of residents with medical checkups, consultations, and essential medications at no cost. Speaking at the event, NAS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63629,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63627\/revisions\/63629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}