Ryan Ba­choo

Lead Ed­i­tor–News­gath­er­ing

ryan.ba­choo@cnc3.co.tt

The Ro­tary Club of Princes Town host­ed a free med­ical out­reach at the St Mary’s Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School on Sun­day.

The event was aimed at of­fer­ing vi­tal health ser­vices to the com­mu­ni­ty of Moru­ga. Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 80 peo­ple were reg­is­tered and re­ceived care from a ded­i­cat­ed team of med­ical pro­fes­sion­als and vol­un­teers.

Some of the ser­vices in­clud­ed blood pres­sure, blood glu­cose, and cho­les­terol test­ing, as well as doc­tor con­sul­ta­tions, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sup­port, den­tal ex­ams, vi­sion test­ing, le­gal ad­vice, and flu shots.

Mem­ber of the Princes Town Ro­tary Club, Michael Coop­er-Ochiengh said, “The med­ical out­reach at St Mary’s was in­spired by our Ro­tary Club’s un­wa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to dis­ease pre­ven­tion and treat­ment (one of Ro­tary’s sev­en ar­eas of fo­cus).

“Each year we en­deav­our to host free med­ical out­reach clin­ics and build­ing on this year’s suc­cess­ful ini­tia­tives—from com­mu­ni­ty screen­ings with Mer­a­ki Med­ical Cen­tre to part­ner­ing with the Di­a­betes As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Pri­ma­ry School Quiz, as well as as­sist­ing with spe­cif­ic needs for surgery and wheel­chairs—we recog­nised the con­tin­ued need for ac­ces­si­ble health­care and well­ness ed­u­ca­tion in un­der­served ar­eas.

“This out­reach was a nat­ur­al con­tin­u­a­tion of our mis­sion to bring vi­tal health ser­vices and ed­u­ca­tion di­rect­ly to the peo­ple, em­pow­er­ing them with knowl­edge, care, and com­pas­sion.”

He added, “Our hope is to con­tin­ue cre­at­ing mean­ing­ful change, one life and one com­mu­ni­ty at a time. We en­vi­sion a fu­ture where health­care is not a priv­i­lege but a ba­sic right—where our out­reach­es grow in reach and im­pact, in­spir­ing health­i­er lifestyles and strength­en­ing com­mu­ni­ty well-be­ing.

“As we move in­to a new Ro­tary year, we car­ry for­ward the be­lief that every act of ser­vice is a spark of mag­ic—a re­minder that re­al change in our com­mu­ni­ties be­gins with com­pas­sion, part­ner­ship, and the courage to ‘Serve Above Self’.”

The ini­tia­tive forms part of the Ro­tary Club of Princes Town’s on­go­ing com­mit­ment to pro­mot­ing health and well­ness in the re­gion, es­pe­cial­ly among un­der­served pop­u­la­tions.

They thanked all the ser­vice providers, vol­un­teers, and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers who made the day a suc­cess.