Hypertension, Diabetes: 500 patients in Sokoto to benefit from free medical outreach

 

 

By Musa Na Annabi, Sokoto

The Late Mallam Balarabe Aliyu Goronyo’s Family Initiatives in Kofar Bai, Sokoto metropolis, on Saturday, sponsored a one-day free Medical Outreach for 500 Hypertension and Diabetes patients.

The invaluable gesture was conducted to further alleviate the sufferings of the less privileged persons in the state, especially the elderly and other vulnerable persons from 30 years and above.

Speaking during the launch of the exercise, a spokesperson of the family, Alhaji Halliru Balarabe Goronyo said, arrangements have been made to provide free drugs, medical advice and referrals for all the targetted beneficiaries.

According to him,  the family would shoulder the costs of any referrals, including surgeries for other identified medical cases like a hernia.

Another member of the family, Ms Aisha Zayyan Aliyu, a JSS III student of Cavendish College, Kaduna, said: ” I am really proud of my family for this wonderful initiative aimed at further alleviating the suffering of the less privileged persons in the society.

The Leader of the Medical Team conducting the exercise, Dr Zubairu Abubakar stated that it consists of Nurses, Haematologists and Laboratory Scientists.

” There are available drugs for all the targetted beneficiaries, while the family will further treatment and surgeries of all referral cases, as we have so far gotten some high malaria and two hernia cases,” he explained.

The Village Head of Shiyyar Galadiman Gari in Sokoto North Local Government of the state, Alhaji Muhammad Bello Sodangi commended the family for coming to the aid of the less privileged persons in the state through the initiative.

” I am therefore passionately appealing to other wealthy families and privileged members of the society to emulate this laudable initiative .”

The Chairman and  Secretary of the Sokoto State Chapter of the Diabetes Association of Nigeria, Alhaji Muhammad Wakili and Hajiya Rashida Shehu Ambursa, respectively, commended the family for the gesture.

The duo described diabetes and hypertension as global health challenges, adding, ” no effort aimed at reducing this formidable health burden is too much .”

It could be read that, the family had in 2020 sponsored another free medical outreach which recorded no fewer than 700 persons with various eye ailments, including referrals and surgeries .

 

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