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Treatment
By Victor Adeoti
Osogbo, Oct. 11, 2016 (NAN) Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun has commended the management of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), for organising free medical treatment for rural dwellers in the State.
Aregbesola made the commendation during the NYSC free medical programme tagged: `Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers’ in Sekona on Tuesday.
The governor described the initiative as a landmark achievement in the history of the scheme in the area of offering selfless service to rural dwellers.
Aregbesola, who was represented by Mr Akinyinka Esho, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, said the initiative was commendable.
The governor said the increasing awareness of the potency of orthodox medicine and the attendant increase in the demand for it had made government’s health facilities inadequate.
The Director General of NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Zakari Kazaure, explained that the free medical programme was designed to cater for the health of the downtrodden.
Represented by Mrs Regina Illuebbey, the NYSC State Coordinator, Kazaure said the free medical outreach which was conceived two years ago had achieved its goal of saving lives.
He said the NYSC, in the past 43 years, had not relented in pursuing its mandate and making meaningful impacts on the lives of people in the different communities across the nation.
“Against this backdrop, the goal of the Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers is to mobilise corps medical volunteers to provide health interventions through diagnosis and treatment for the general well- being of the rural dwellers’’, he said. (NAN)
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Edited by Joseph Edeh/Idahosa Asowata
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