No fewer than 7000 patients with various ailments trouped in for medical attention at the 6 edition of Senator Dauda Binos Yaroe’s free medical outreach program following the ongoing nation strike by resident doctors at Federal medical facilities in the country.
The 6th edition took place in Toungo local government area of Adamawa state had patients from all part of the state and other states like Taraba and Gombe.
One of the highlights of the 4days medical outreach program was the successful surgery of two eutopia pregnancy by two patients who couldn’t get treatment as a result of the ongoing strick by Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors (NARD)
Speaking in an interview with journalists in Toungo, Jummai Abubakar one of the parents who was operated on said ” for over two weeks now I have not been able see doctor at the Federal Medical Center, Yola because of the strike and I could not afford the cost but today as you can see it, I am recuperating on the sick bed here free of charge”.
The story is the same for Albert Ganjuba who had an appendix and was operated on successfully according to him after days of pains because he could not afford the bills at private health facility.
Speaking to Journalists, one of the lead doctors that attended to patients, Dr.Jama Medan said that “we are have targeted 5000 to 6000 patients but ended up attending to 7500 patients who were treated on various ailments”.
Noting that they had patients from within and outside the state even from Cameroon, he attributed the large turnout to the ongoing strike by Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors
He gave the breakdown of ailments the outreach program has been able to address in the last few days to includes 206 caterrach extraction,200 surgeries,600 medical glasses distributed among many other areas of health challenges including two referral cases were their cases can be treated at the expense of the outreach program.
Earlier, Sen.Binos Dauda Yaroe said that “although ,the duty of a legislator is to make laws and carry out other legislative functions but his decision to embarked on the exercise and give priority to the health sector is due to the importance he attached to the health needs and survival of his people”.
He promised to keep on the good work of serving his people and giving priority to this sector stressing that ” health is wealth” and that his medical intervention will not end with the completion of the outreach in the remaining 3 local governments.
Assured to to continue the medical outreach to other local government areas that could not access the free medical assistance in his remaining years in office and as long as he remain in the National Assembly.
According to him, ” my intervention in the health sector is not at the detriment of other sectors as erroneously believed by some people noting that,he has also embarked on drilling of boreholes,empowerment programs, distributions of agricultural inputs among other interventions geared towards bringing succour to the people of my constituency only that health sector top my agenda”. The Senator said.
Binos who refused to disclosed the cost of all the medical outreaches carried out by him in all the six local governments of his constituency that have benefited from the gestures so far noted that what is importance to him is not the cost but the impact it has make in the lives of his people stressing that,his people are happy and he is impress with the programme so far.
