A community-based group in Brewerville has partnered with the Eye Center at the JFK Medical Hospital in staging a medical exercise, impacting at least 150 people.
The medical outreach, held recently, provided an opportunity for the people of Christian Community, Parker Corner, and surrounding areas to have their eyes tested, free of charge.
The medical exercises were a part of the community outreach and social contributions of the Family Union Organization.
The Family Union Organization is a community-based group that comprises individuals of diverse professional and social backgrounds. It is a non-political organization, founded in 2022.
The team from the JFK Eye Center attended to the people for more than five hours.
The residents formed long queues, as they lined up for the eye screening.
“This so helpful and very good for some of us who often experience strange feelings in our eyes,” said Sarah Kollie, a resident believed to be in her 50’s.
“For me, this is very useful. I was checked and told that I am developing cataract on my left eye,” John Wallace, 32, explained. He added “I was advised to visit the JFK Eye Center or any other eye health center for further advice on what can be done to remove the cataract.”
The Chairperson of the Program Committee of the Family Union group, Solomon White, said the medical outreach was a manifestation of his organization’s desire to help promote the health and social wellbeing of the people.
“We are doing this as our modest but meaningful contribution, to help with the improvement of the health of our people,” White indicated.
“This will hopefully not be our last time. We will explore ways to continue to support efforts to advance the health of our community residents,” Chairperson White announced, as he spoke in an interview.
Another beneficiary of the eye screening, Wesseh Sackor, applauded both the JFK Eye Center team and the Family Union Organization for the medical outreach.
“For a man like me who has been trying hard to do an eye test, this opportunity could not have come at a better time,” revealed Sackor, as he kept beaming with smiles while leaving the eye testing site.
The Head of the Advisory Committee of the Family Union Organization, Konah Roberts, asserted that the group deemed the medical outreach, a proud service to the people of Brewerville City.
“What we are doing here makes us proud as a group and an organization. But we are not going to stop here,” Roberts disclosed, before revealing that “We are also going to brainstorm on other activities that we will consider useful and beneficial to our people.”
It was not just the elderly who benefitted from the medical intervention.
Children were also some of the main beneficiaries of the outreach.
“I brought my little daughter to get her eyes tested,” Doris Wreh, a mother of an eight-year-old child, explained. She further disclosed that “My daughter’s eyes are often teary, and she also complains of the eyes itching.”
Wreh could not hide her excitement over the work of the medical team.
“I am leaving from here with an idea of what should be done to help improve the condition of my daughter’s eyes,” she intimated, and then concluded by saying “I am very much thankful to Family Union for this initiative. This is a classic show of a group that is willing to help the people of the community.”
Nyantee Jeh, Secretary General of the Family Union, enthused that initiatives such as the eye testing outreach are some of the activities for which the organization was founded.
“We were established on a foundation of being of good service to our people and community,” Jeh informed the crowd.
