Oyo State Government has completed free medical services for over 25,000 people for the first quarter of the Omituntun Medical Mission.
This, in its efforts towards ensuring that the people at the grassroots enjoy free, and adequate health care service delivery.
Wife of the state governor, Mrs. Tamunominini Olufunke Makinde disclosed on Thursday at the Ring Road State Hospital, Ibadan.
She said that no fewer than twenty-five thousand people across all geopolitical area of the state benefited from the free medical mission.
The Governor’s wife maintained that the free medical mission since its inception has taken care of the children, the middle-aged, as well as the aged men and women who are mostly affected with sight challenges.
The beneficiaries of the free medical mission got free drugs, free HIV kits, Glucose level, Eye tests and surgery, Appendix removal Surgery, Hernia Surgery for Children, Eye Cataract removal, surgery for both adults and the young, as well as Caesarian surgeries for expected mothers who are not even on the list of beneficiaries, according to the State Director of Secondary Health Care Unit, Mr. Wale Falana.
Mrs. Makinde said that the programme as promised by the state Governor, Seyi Makinde, will be a quarterly one that is aimed at developing the social and economic growth of the state. She stressed that it is only the healthy people that can go to market for the transaction.
“the teacher can go to school only when he or she is healthy, and our market men and women can go to market for daily transactions only when they are healthy. So you will agree with me that health is wealth. This program is meant for the people that cannot afford to pay for their medical treatments. They will be tested for free, get required surgery’s if necessary, and go home with drugs without paying any dime.
“It will be sad when there is availability of enough drugs, and when doctors and consultants are on the ground ready to work but when people to be treated are not on the ground. So, I urge you to make good use of this opportunity for the betterment of your health.”
Mrs. Makinde also charged residents across the State to embrace the State Health Insurance, stressing that with just a token of N8,000, one can be treated for various health challenges up to surgery level for a period of a year.
