Omu-Aran - Dr Musa Bello, the Coordinator of Aro Bamgbose Free
Health Care Empowerment Programme in Kwara, says no fewer than 4
000 people have benefited from the programme since its inception a
year ago.
Bello said this during the Bi-annual Free Healthcare Programme
organised by the foundation in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government
Area on Sunday.
The two-day programme attracted people from the three wards in
Omu-Aran and the adjoining communities in Oro, Oko, Aran-Orin and
Oke-Onigbin.
Some of the beneficiaries of the programme received free test,
treatment and drugs for different ailments such as hypertension,
diabetes, malaria and pelvic ulcer diseases.
They also received health tips on breast cancer awareness and
prevention of Ebola Virus Disease outbreak.
Bello said the programme was being organised to coincide with the Eid-
el-Kabir and Christmas periods in order to achieve wider coverage.
He said the foundation’s intensive awareness campaigns through
churches, mosques, schools and markets had helped a lot in view of the
large turnout of people who attended the programme.
Chief Adekunle Oyinloye, the Chairman and sole financier of the
foundation, urged Nigerians to always take advantage of the
numerous free healthcare services being organised to know their
health status.
Oyinloye said staging of the programme was informed by the need to
raise the health standard of the beneficiaries.
- NAN
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