By Joshua Didymus
The Rotaract Club of the University of Ibadan, in collaboration with the Rotaract Club of College Hospital, held a hypertension awareness outreach at Bodija International Market, Ibadan, on Saturday, November 7, 2026.
The outreach, which commenced at 9:00 a.m., featured blood pressure screenings, counselling and consultations, alongside health education to sensitise market participants to hypertension and the importance of its prevention and management.
Speaking with the press, the Project Director, Rotaractor Judith Omotayo, explained that the outreach was part of Rotaract’s project timeline, which focuses on different areas of community service. She identified her project’s focus as disease prevention and treatment, with particular attention to hypertension.
According to her, the initiative was designed to draw public attention to hypertension, which she described as a silent disease capable of gradually damaging vital body organs.
The Project Director also identified funding as a major challenge encountered during the planning of the outreach. She explained that the organisers had initially intended to undertake more activities but had to scale down their plans due to limited financial resources and the approaching project deadline.
“We initially wanted to do more than this, but the time was short, and the funds were not looking like they were coming, so we just had to do with what we had.”
