Adamawa Southern Senatorial Zone free medical outreach commences grand finale for constituents
From Umar Dankano,Yola.
The free medical outreach being sponsored by Senator Binos Dauda Yaroe representing Adamawa Southern senatorial district has commenced a 5 days grand finale in Demsa local government area of the state.
Lead medical Consultant of the exercise Dr. Telemoh Dah while speaking at the occasion yesterday announced that during the five day medical outreach, his team will provide free consultations, free medical tests, free eye glasses, free surgeries, free laboratory tests, free abdominal scans and free drugs amongst many other services.
Dah noted that consultants for the activity were drawn from 10 states across Nigeria who will diligently work throughout the five days earmarked for the exercise to cater for the health needs of the beneficiaries.
Dah urged the patients to exercise patience while awaiting the services as he assured all on ground that no one will be left behind.
Senator Binos Yaroe in his speech during the ceremony expressed gratitude to all stakeholders especially leadership of LCCN Missionary involved in realising his desired feat of contributing in assisting his people noting that such cooperation has been instrumental to the successes recorded so far.
He noted that the first medical outreach he conducted in 2019 shortly after his election took place at the hospital noting that the success of the medical outreach served as a springboard for the successes of the subsequent ones.
“I must thank Archbishop Musa Panti Filibus for agreeing to come and to be a willing partner in this project. We performed our first medical outreach here in August 2019 and it was a huge success. That success serve as the springboard for the successes of subsequent medical outreaches,” he said.
Yaroe noted that every outreach amongst the past eleven medical outreaches conducted has a peculiar story of how impactful it was to the beneficiaries adding that during the first medical outreach, the vision of a 24 year old young man, Edward who became blind at the age of three was restored.
He urged beneficiaries to exercise patience while waiting for their turn to be attended to just as he thanked Hama Bata and Adamawa State government for their unflinching corporation to the medical outreaches.
Earlier in his remarks, the president of the Lutheran World Federation and Archbishop of the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria,LCCN.Musa Panti Filibus Commended the positive contributions of the Southern Zone Senator Yaroe to his people.
Filibus said the medical outreach to cater for the health needs of indigent patients in Demsa Local Government and other councils conducted have touched so many lives which have earned their prayers as religious leaders to the Senator.
The cleric noted that although the facility is a missionary hospital, it is available to all and sundry irrespective of religious or any other inclination as the major purpose of building the hospital is to serve humanity,enjoining the staff of the hospital to work seamlessly with the visiting consultants for the overall success of the exercise.
Over 90,000 indigent patients have so far benefitted from the various medical outreaches which the senator organized since his election in 2019.
