Lagos begins medical screening for Jerusalem pilgrims

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Lagos begins medical screening for Jerusalem pilgrims

The Lagos State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board, on Thursday, said it has commenced administrative and medical screening as part of activities preceding the airlift of intending pilgrims to Jerusalem and Jordan.

The Board Secretary, LSCPWB, Mrs Yetunde Gbafe, in a statement on Thursday, said the screening, which began on Tuesday at the Chapel of Christ The Light, Alausa, Ikeja, was in collaboration with the National Christian Pilgrims Commission and other relevant agencies of government in charge of verifying travelling documents.

Gbafe said the administrative part of the screening exercise was organised to validate the travel documents of the intending pilgrims in order to know if the intending pilgrims are qualified for the journey.

Speaking on the medical aspect of the screening, Gbafe said, “We want our pilgrims to be fit, hale and hearty. We want to go to the holy land and return with all our pilgrims, without any record of pilgrims’ abscondment or death.”

She implored the intending pilgrims to give accurate and sincere information about their health status to the medical personnel, saying, “This will afford the state government to make adequate preparation to cater for the medical needs of the intending pilgrims.”

The Representative of NCPC, Mr Frank Chukwura, pleaded with the pilgrims to show the attributes of true believers and avoid giving conflicting information.

He said, “Absolute sincerity is all that is needed and I hope that all the intending pilgrims at this screening exercise will ultimately make the journey to the holy land because the more pilgrims that embark on this journey with us, the better.”