50 children get free eye surgery.
No fewer than 50 children across Nigeria have received free medical eye surgery, aimed at restoring their sight, says officials of the T.Y Danjuma Foundation Health Care Initiative.
Speaking to journalists on Tuesday in Jos, the Plateau state capital, the Acting Director of the Foundation, Mr. Pokop Bupwatda, said about 15,000 Nigerians have also been treated from different ailments since the establishment of the foundation eight years ago.
Mr. Bupwatda who is also the acting Executive Director, Care Vision Support Initiative (CAVSI), said that the free treatment is part of humanitarian service of the founder of the foundation, Gen. Theophilous Danjuma, a former Chief of Defence Staff with the aim of assisting Nigerians who cannot afford medication due to poverty.
According to him, “50,000 Nigerians have so far benefited from the T.Y. Danjuma Foundation’s Health Care Initiative with about 15,000 having different categories of eye surgeries since inception in 2009”.
He also stated that a recent medical outreach by the foundation in Taraba State recently, carried out series of sugary on 82 patients including the elderly.
“82 persons were operated for cataracts, one, for Bilamellar Tarsal Rotation (BTR) 21, Pterygium and a total of 873 medication and 263 recommended for eye glasses,” he stressed.
The collaborative partner of the Foundation, Care Vision Support Initiative, CAVSI, also said “over 25,000 eye glasses have been distributed to those in dire need of medicated glasses and the Taraba eye camp witnessed such free services as well.”
