World Polio Day: Centre Stages Walk To Create Awareness - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 24, 2019
The Cedarcrest Polio Cetre, in collaboration with CedarcrestHospitals and Rotary Club of Koblenz, Germany have organised a walk in Abuja,to create awareness for Post-Polio Syndrome in Nigeria.
Other collaborators in the Enlightenment Walk exerciseincluded the Police Centre of the Catholic Hospitals in Koblenz/Monabaur andOttobock.
The Medical Director, Cedarcrest Hospital, Felix Ogedegbe,while addressing the crowd that thronged in for the exercise, thanked them forthe interest in the efforts to rid Nigeria of polio.
Ogedegbe said that the Walk was aimed at commemorating theWorld Polio Day and to also create awareness on the need for steady attentionto polio survivors.
He said that the aim was to make treatment available topeople living with residual deformities after suffering from acutepoliomyelitis infection.
100 polio victims were offered free medical care andtreatment as part of the activities to commemorate the 2019 World Polio Day.