Green Fuels Facilitates Free Eye Care, Medical Outreach for over 200 people in Host Community

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Green Fuels Nigeria Limited has partnered with Indo Eye Care Foundation, Rotary Club of Lagos Palm Grove Estate, to give over 200 people free Eye care and medical outreach in the Ogun community.

The initiative was said to be part of Green Fuels’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) to its host community, recognising that the majority of the people have been struggling with healthcare management issues due to financial deficits among the vulnerable.

Speaking at the outreach, the Executive Director of Green Fuels, Mr Dheerendra Singh Chauhan, stated that Green Fuels prioritises the well-being of its host community, and giving back to them is a major impact, as the company also believes it is part of the community.

He cheerfully explained that the Eye is something where people don’t feel pain, but it is a very important organ, and essential for humans to live a good quality and productive life.

Chauhan added that lack of awareness, lack of basic care, lack of access to doctors, particularly among the vulnerable, sometimes lead minor issues on their sight to bigger problems, which can be cataract, glaucoma, and other issues.

He said, “We believe that the Eye is something where you don’t feel pain, but it is a very important organ, and if I say so, vision, vision in both symbolic and literal meaning, is essential for human dignity, good life, quality and productivity. For a company, a vision is also very important. And for human beings, it is also very important. And lack of awareness, lack of basic care, lack of access to doctors, sometimes lead to bigger problems, be it cataract, be it glaucoma, and other issues. So here it’s an effort to provide that access, basic testing and provide the glasses where it is recommended by the doctors, or in some cases, advanced recommendations like cataract operations, The effort is not limited only to do this basic stuff, but also take it to the next level, which is, for example, some people needs the cataract operation. So there is a camp happening in Lagos in December, which is not just a camp, it is where there will be cataract operation free of cost”.

That’s why we have partnered with Indo Eye Care Foundation, so that we just don’t start something and leave it in the middle without concluding it. So we have started this, and those who are recommended for the operation. In December, there will be cataract operations free of cost in Lagos with Indo Eye Care Foundation, and that’s where we will take this thing further.

“Because, as Green Fuels Limited, we strongly believe that an organisation is measured not only by its business achievements, but also by how it impacts the lives of the people around, and this is our community. So we are partners. We are not only investors, we are partners to this community in their well-being. So this is also a major, important goal for our company to make sure that people around us are healthy doing doing well”

Chauhan commended the leaders of the host community for their support, stating the turnout was encouraging.

Also speaking, the admin manager for Indo Eye Care Foundation, Mrs Oluwatosin Johnson, disclosed that Green Fuels facilitated the Eye Care outreach to the Ogun community with the support of Indo Eye Care.

She maintained that, though it has been part of the company activities, adding that they are doing cataract and teregium surgery, and giving glasses for those who need them for free of charge, all at the courtesy of Green Fuels.

Mrs Johnson affirmed that those who need cataract and glaucoma surgery would be contacted for an operation in their Lagos office by December.

She said, “We understand the importance of the Eye in the body, because there are people who are lame in their body and still doing one thing or the other, but when the eye is lost, you cannot do anything, even if you have the other parts of the body”.

She appeals to people to always seize the opportunity whenever there is free Eye care, adding that there is no need for them to be afraid of getting themselves tested at a safe cost in the future.

Corroborating, the general manager of human resources at Green Fuels Liquid Natural Gas, Otunba Bolaji Oyedeko, asserts that a lot of people don’t really care much about their sight, which may be because of finances. So, we had a discussion with the leadership of this community on what their major need is, which turned out to be health care.

“We realised that a lot of people don’t really care much about their sight, so we had a discussion with the leadership of this community that we wish to come and have this eye camp with them by partnering with the organisation called Indo Eye Care Foundation from Lagos, which is an organisation that does things like this”.

He also disclosed that Green Fuels will kickstart school rehabilitation in the host community soon to continue its corporate social responsibility.

“We already discussing with them, now we can improve maybe some of their schools, most of the schools around there, they are dilapidated, and we feel we can do one or two things for them so that children can read on a very conducive environment, and there will be lots more, as we are discussing with the communities, because everything we are doing, we are doing conjunction with the leaders of the community, but we don’t want to do things that will not be of benefit to them”

Appreciate the initiative, the Baale of the communities Chief Sobowale Alani of Ayeloja and Chief Alao Fadipe Baale Iyana Ikereku commended the efforts of disclosing that the community has over 5,000 people with different health challenges.

They posited that healthcare empowerment has really done so much to lift the burden on the citizens of the communities.