By On Wednesday, 14th September, 2022, the LASU Sickle Cell Society in conjunction with the Rotaract Club of LASUCOM, held a walk-a-thon in commemoration of the World Sickle Cell Awareness Month marked in September.
The event, themed “Shining the light on SCD”, featured a free sickle cell clinic, the distribution of free routine drugs to people living with the sickle cell disease, and counseling classes for those who needed counseling.
The walk-a-thon started from the Health Centre which was the convergence Point, and cut across all faculties on the LASU main campus in Ojo, Lagos.
The aim of the outreach was to create awareness about the sickle cell disease as well as to cater for the needs of Sickle cell champions whilst making the presence of the LASU Sickle Cell Society on campus known.
Sensitization talks were also given by Sickle Cell Advocacy and Management Initiative, a Lagos-based SCD non-governmental organization.
No fewer than two hundred people were part of the programme, and about thirty sickle cell patients benefitted from the free drug distribution and clinic whilst non-sickle cell patients had their vital signs checked.
Founded in 2021 by Durodola Ayomide, a student of the Lagos State University College of Medicine, the LASU Sickle Cell Society aims to create awareness about the sickle cell disease in LASU, eradicate the stigmatisation of warriors in LASU, and help reduce the number of people living with the disease by helping them know their hemoglobin genotypes.
Below are some pictures from the event:
