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Access to Basic medical Care Foundation celebrated her 5th Anniversary/Fund Raising Dinner in Grand style on 11th October, 2018 in commemoration with the Breast Cancer Awareness Month was held at Best Western Hotel, Ibadan, Oyo State. Different dignitaries graced the pink carpet and wrote words of hope on the board.

The event attracted a large crowd as The Executive Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, The Wife of the Executive Governor of Oyo State, Dr (Mrs) Florence Ajimobi, The wife of the Deputy Governor of the State, Mrs Adeyemo,  President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chief (Mrs) Onikepo Akande, Chief (Mrs) Tola Oyediran  and other dignitaries were in attendance.

The Chief Operating Officer, Mrs Dolapo Oyedipe, during her speech at the event, emphasized the need to donate towards a good cause in order to reduce the plague called Cancer and how it saddens her heart hearing the sad news of people dying from it.

The Chief Executive Officer/Founder of Access to Basic medical Care Foundation, Dr (Mrs) Florence Ajimobi during her speech thanked the team for making a conscious effort to make the fundraising dinner a success. She added the need to fight against the plague called Cancer and the need to donate in order to treat those suffering from it and also the importance of women taking care of their health and doing a medical checkup.

The Executive Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi gave his speech and implored women to look after their health and donate towards the good cause which he started. The Chairperson of the event, Chief (Mrs) Onikepo Akande gave her speech and donated towards the cause.

Other side attractions include ballet dancers and saxophonist. We recited the national anthem and Oyo state anthem and the program was closed.

The founder/CEO of Access to Basic medical Care Foundation, Dr (Mrs) Florence Ajimobi, COO ABC Foundation,  Mrs Dolapo Oyedipe, Dr Olushola Oriniowo and Miss Adetola Abolarinwa are at the World Cancer Congress 2018 which is ongoing at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Dr Olushola Oriniowo gave a presentation on ‘Oyo State Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening Training Programme for Nurses’, Case Study: Access to Basic medical Care Foundation with emphasis on the collaborative effort at the ongoing World Cancer Congress 2018.

Access to Basic medical Care Foundation collaborated with Oyo State Ministry of Health and other organizations to conduct medical outreach. The medical outreach is focused on breast and cervical screening only for women living in Oyo state. The screening has been ongoing for the past three weeks. The outreach includes follow up and further treatment for some of the women screened.

Access to Basic medical Care Foundation collaborated with Oyo State Ministry of Health, University College Hospital (UCH), Society for Family Health (SFH), Roche and ISN to conduct free breast and cervical screening for women in all the 33 Local Government Areas in the state. This is in line with the launching of the Cancer Control Plan 2018-2022. This outreach is aimed at reaching out to women in the state and it will help in early discovery of  breast and cervical cancer which will be followed up and treated appropriately.

The outreach kicked off on 30th July, 2o18 at Irepo Local Government, where it was flagged off by the wife of the Chairman, Alhaja Rasheedat Adediran, in attendance were Dr Olusola Oriniowo representing the Founder of ABC Foundation Dr (Mrs) Florence Ajimobi and Dr Ladipo representing the Commissioner for Health.

The screening kicked off at Irepo local government, Orelope local government and Olorunsogo local government. The medical team consisted of three groups, each group was assigned to each local governments for screening and 500 women were screened in each local governments.

World Breastfeeding Week is always celebrated on the 1st-7th of August every year to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world.

Breastfeeding is the best way to provide infants with the nutrients they need. WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding starting within one hour after birth until a baby is 6 months old. Nutritious complementary foods should then be added while continuing to breastfeed for up to 2 years or beyond.

According to the World Health Organization, here are 10 Breastfeeding Facts:

1. The World Health Organization states that breast milk is the ideal food for newborns and infants, providing all the nutrients they need for healthy development, including antibodies that help protect infants from common childhood illnesses such as diarrhoea and pneumonia, the two primary causes of child mortality worldwide.

2. WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding starting within one hour after birth until a baby is 6 months old to promote health.

3. Only about 36 percent of infants aged zero to 6 months worldwide were exclusively breastfed over the period of 2007 to 2014. The lives of over 820,000 children could be saved every year among children under 5 years if all children zero to 23 months were optimally breastfed.

4. To meet the growing needs of babies at 6 months of age, parents can introduce nutritionally-adequate and safe complementary foods while continuing to breastfeed up to 2 years of age or beyond.

5. Breast milk can provide half or more of a child’s energy needs between the ages of 6 and 12 months, and one-third of energy needs between 12 and 24 months. It is also a critical source of energy and nutrients during illness.

6. Breastfeeding also helps boost health later in life, with teens and adults who were breastfed less likely to be overweight or obese and less likely to have type 2 diabetes. It is also associated with better school attendance, better performance in intelligence tests, and higher income in adult life.

7. Skin-to-skin contact along with suckling at the breast both help to stimulate the production of breastmilk, including colostrum, also called the baby’s ‘”first vaccine,” which is extremely rich in nutrients and antibodies.

8. Exclusive breastfeeding can also benefit moms, reducing the risks of breast and ovarian cancer, type II diabetes, and postpartum depression.

9. Due to its hormonal effect breastfeeding is also associated with a natural (though not fail-safe) method of birth control known as the Lactation Amenorrhea Method, which gives 98 percent protection in the first six months after birth and can help space pregnancies.

10. For infants born to HIV-infected mothers, antiretroviral drugs are now available to allow these children to exclusively breastfeed until they are 6 months old and continue breastfeeding until at least 12 months of age with a significantly reduced risk of HIV transmission.