Background: Medical outreach is one of the strategies to enhance access to healthcare services in rural communities considering that most health facilities and workers are concentrated in urban areas. Studies on morbidity pattern in underserved communities will provide information that could guide allocation of scarce resources and planning for health services. This study aimed to assess the morbidity profile of patients at a free rural medical outreach in a resourced-constrained community of Benue state.

Method: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted among 566 consecutive participants who gave consent, over a period of two days at a free rural medical outreach clinic of St. Mary Catholic hospital, Okpoga, Benue state. Data on socio-demographics, clinical complaints, examination findings, investigations and diagnoses were collected using a predesigned semi-structured interviewer administered questionnaire. Data were analysed with Python programming language version 3.8.

Results: A total of 566 patients were seen. 218 (38.5%) were aged 26-50 years, while 387 (68.3%) were females. Peptic ulcer disease was the most prevalent disease condition 83 (12.7%) followed by cataract 54 (8.2%), malaria 52 (7.9%), hernia 46 (7.0%) and allergic conjunctivitis 41 (6.3%) respectively.