Federal Public Servants in the country have been urged to take seriously the habit of doing regular medical check-up, in order to ensure an effective service delivery and punctuality.
This charge was given Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, in Abuja when she declared open a five-day free medical check-up for workers on the payroll of the Federal Government.
Oyo-Ita pointed out that most of the reported cases of collapse of some workers either on their way to their respective offices or during office hours could be attributed to lack of proper medical check-ups by workers to determine their health status.
She advised workers to always create time out of their busy schedules to ensure that they have a thorough medical check-up of their health, especially in recent times when there are reported cases all over the world of increase in hypertension among the adult population.
She added that other related contagious diseases can be so devastating, if not dictated at the earlier stage for possible and proper medical attention.
She urged the workers to use the opportunity of the programme to ensure that they know their health status.
The Head of Service assured them of government’s determination to ensure a healthy workforce committed to providing effective, efficient and prompt services to Nigerians.
According to her, the free medical check-up would be a regular one.
