Entry Financial institution Plc, by means of its Girls Banking initiative, has unveiled the seventh version of its flagship girls’s wellness marketing campaign, W Well being Month.
The annual programme focuses on elevating well being consciousness, offering important screenings, and supporting girls in constructing a stronger tradition of well being. Since its launch in 2019, W Well being Month has been held each October, highlighting Entry Financial institution’s dedication to enhancing girls’s well being and selling larger consciousness of essential well being challenges throughout Africa.
Talking on this 12 months’s marketing campaign, Group head, Girls Banking at Entry Financial institution, Nene Kunle-Ogunlusi, defined that the initiative continues to evolve in response to probably the most urgent well being challenges confronted by girls, whereas additionally offering sensible assist and preventive care.
“The 2025 version of W Well being Month will highlight maternal and preventive well being, with specific deal with elevating consciousness round fibroids, most cancers, and maternal vitamin.
One of many key highlights would be the Bodily Well being Screening Occasion scheduled for October 9, 2025, at Onikan Common Hospital in Lagos.
At this occasion, girls, together with pregnant and nursing moms, can have entry to free blood sugar exams, fibroid screening checks, breast scan, pap smears, alongside expert-led well being talks.
“We’re additionally offering W Care Packs containing important objects for girls and infants, in partnership with The Milk Booster additional demonstrating our dedication to supporting girls at each stage of their well being journey,” she stated.
Kunle-Ogunlusi stated, “past screenings, this 12 months’s version additionally showcases the advantages of the W Well being Mortgage and the Financial institution’s strategic partnerships with main healthcare suppliers. Girls will achieve entry to financing of as much as N10 million for fertility, weight reduction, fibroid, youngster supply, dental, orthopedic, eye, and most cancers remedies, provided at zero mortgage charges and discounted charges.
“As well as, now we have partnered with Cedarcrest Hospital in Abuja to offer a 30 per cent low cost on fibroid surgical procedures, with EMobile Specialist Hospital for 10 per cent off fertility and surrogacy companies, and with the B.R.A.N.T. Program to offer free IHC exams and extra most cancers care assist.”
W Well being Month has grown into a number one platform for well being advocacy throughout Africa. Over time, the programme has straight impacted greater than 33,000 girls in 35 international locations by means of actions akin to webinars, yoga periods, PCOS consciousness campaigns, and well being talks.
