Mrs. Buhari offers free medical treatment to 3000 persons in Bauchi

No fewer than 3000 citizens and people living in Bauchi State are expected to benefit from a medical outreach organised by the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, under her pet project, “Future Assured.”

The wife of the president, who stated this while flagging-off the medical outreach at the State Specialist Hospital in Bauchi, said that the target of the outreach is to screen and treat about 3,000 people as well as creating awareness for Diabetes, Hypertension, Eye ailments and deworming of children.

The North East Coordinator of Future Assured, Zuwaira Gambo, who stood in for the wife of the president, said that the initiative was aimed at complementing government efforts to provide health care for the populace.

Gambo while expressing optimism that the screening will improve the health status of the people of the state, as well as serve as a reminder on the need for regular medical checkups, added that the outreach was being carried out in collaboration with the Bauchi State ministry of Health and the wife of the State Governor, Hajiya Hadiza Mohammed.

She assured that the outreach will offer free medication for the treatment of some of the ailments screened for and offer free eye glasses to adults who needed them.

On deworming of children, she said: “Deworming of children is also part of the event. Vitamin C tablets will be given out to the children while toothbrushes and toothpaste will also be given to them to encourage dental hygiene”.

“As part of the event marking the outreach, we donated 2,000 assorted drugs to some selected schools in the State and have sensitized residents of the state on the importance of turning out for this medical outreach”.

In his address, the Permanent Secretary of the State Ministry of Health, Saidu Aliyu Gital, described as very impressive the turnout for the outreach by the residents, saying that the programme was going well as planned without any hitches.

Gital said a total of 160 medical personnel for the programme were on ground to attend to patients, urging the people of Bauchi to take advantage of the free treatment programme in order to better their health conditions.

Samuel Luka, Bauchi