The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has flagged off an expanded medical outreach programme in his Yobe North Senatorial District,constituency.
The free medical services which started in 2018 with main focus on eye related medical conditions has now been expanded in scope and number of beneficiaries.
The services now includes eye treatment and surgery, gynecological check up and surgeries for hernia, hydrocele, fibroid and others.
This year alone, more than 5000 patients with eye-related cases are expected to receive treatment and also more than 6000 patients with hypertension, diabetes and the likes will benefit from the gesture.
Speaking at the flagg-off ceremony Lawan said the medical outreach is in keeping up with important and necessary Intervention for people who need either the surgeries or the general treatment to recover their sight or improve their sight.
He said ” We started this because we noticed that people had those challenges at that time and yet majority of them didn’t have the means to receive any medical attention.”
“And since I could afford it, I thought it was my duty to provide means of some Intervention. So we initiated this programme in 2018.”
” We believe this is a worthwhile venture that will make people’s lives better. This Intervention means a lot, makes a lot of difference in the lives of many of them. And we are doing it to complement the efforts of the Yobe State government.”
” The Yobe State government has been doing fantastically well in this area but we believe that we have some areas that we can also bring in our Intervention to support the state government.
“I think we are doing the right thing and I believe that next year, by the Grace of God, we will do more if we see more people who need our Intervention.”
The Senate President also used the opportunity of his three-day visit to his Constituency to flag off the construction of some township roads both in Gashua and Nguru.
He also gave out some relief materials to victims of the recent flood that occurred in parts of his Constituency in Bade and Jakusko Local Government Areas.
He said ” To those communities whose Houses were affected by the flood, 4000 bags of cement, 480 bundles of Zinc, 1150 logs of timber and 160 bags of nails were distributed to them.’
” Those other victims whose farmlands were affected shared among themselves food items including Rice, Maize and Millet. Provisions were made for a total of 650 bags of each of the food items.
” This gesture was meant to be just support and my personal Intervention to complement what the state government had done for them.
