- Rolls out medical palliative
From Bamigbola Gbolagunte
The Osun State government has expressed its readiness to embark on another round of free medical outreach.
This is even as the state government rolled out medical palliative to cater for the needs of the sick people in all parts of the state.
The state commissioner for Health, Mr Jola Akintola, while addressing a press conference to herald the second edition of Imole free medical outreach disclosed that the Governor Ademola Adeleke administration is concerned about the welfare and health condition of the people, hence the free medical outreach.
The state government had recently embarked on similar health care programme to mark the 100 days in office of Governor Adeleke.
The commissioner hinted that over 22,000 people spread across the nine federal constituencies of the state benefited from the first edition of the free medical outreach with different ailments treated and surgeries done.
He hinted further that free eye glasses were given to those with eye defects in the previous edition of the free medical outreach, stressing that similar thing will be done in the second edition which will commence in Ilesa on Wednesday, 16th August, 2023.
He listed the towns selected for the second edition of the exercise to include Ilesa, Ile-Ife in Osun East senatorial district, Ede and Iwo in Osun West and Ila and Osogbo in Osun Central senatorial district.
Akintola disclosed that medical experts including Doctors, Nurses and Pharmacists will be drawn from the Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo and other health institutions across the state.
The commissioner explained that the medical outreach will involve general surgery, eye surgery and general medical care which will all be sponsored by the state government.
On the medical palliative, the commissioner informed that “the state Governor had instructed that palliative measures be given to the people of the state in the area of medical needs.”