NAN-HG-8
Healthcare
Omu-Aran (Kwara) Dec. 29, 2016 (NAN) Aro Bamgbose Foundation, an NGO, is committed to ensuring unhindered access to quality and affordable healthcare services at the grassroots.
Mr Musa Bello, the coordinator, Aro Bamgbose Free Healthcare Empowerment Programme, made the statement during a two-day free healthcare service organised by the foundation in Omu-Aran.
The programme, which would end on Dec. 29, attracted no fewer than 500 beneficiaries from the three wards in Omu-Aran and other adjoining communities of Ajase, Oko, Ipetu and Oke-Onbigbin.
Bello said the free healthcare service was organised to co-incide with eid-el-Kabir and Christmas periods to allow for mass participation of the targeted populace.
He said that part of the empowerment programme of the foundation, was to educate and sensitise the people on breast cancer and other related ailments.
He added that some f the people were tested, treated and given free drugs for various ailments.
“Most of the beneficiaries received medical tests, treatment and drugs for ailments such as malaria, typhoid fever, hypertension and diabetes.
“The objective is to improve life expectancy of the less privileged and afford them the opportunity of knowing their health status for them to take necessary precautionary measures,’’ he said.
Bello lauded the traditional council, religious leaders, artisans and market leaders in Omu-Aran for their efforts in ensuring wide publicity and success of the programme.
In his remarks, Chief Adekunle Oyinloye, the founder and financier of the foundation, said the organisastion’s programmes were geared toward complementing governments’ efforts in education, health and human capacity development.
He said that the problems confronting various sectors of the nation’s economy was too enormous for government alone to shoulder and stressed the need for the contributions of stakeholders’ to achieve results.
Oyinloye, who is also the Managing Director of Infrastructure Bank, Abuja, said that the free healthcare service was his own way of giving back to the less privilege in the society.
“Many of our people are ignorant of their health conditions, especially in remote towns and villages.
“It is our hope that when we take care of the people health wise, they can then channel other resources to proving accommodation and education for their children,” he said.
Alhaja Sidiqat Abolarin, a beneficiary, thanked the organiser for their foresight and urged other wealthy individuals and groups in the society to emulate the gesture. (NAN)
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Edited by Ifeyinwa Okonkwo/Archibong Asuquo