Igbomina mobile clinic offers free medical treatment to 1,200 people

A non-governmental organisation, the Igbomina Mobile Clinic, has been giving residents of the community in Kwara State free medical treatment monthly.  The organisation said the gesture was its only way of giving back to the society.    So far, about 254 rural and indigenous Igbomina communities in three local government areas of Kwara State, according […]

A non-governmental organisation, the Igbomina Mobile Clinic, has been giving residents of the community in Kwara State free medical treatment monthly.

 The organisation said the gesture was its only way of giving back to the society.  

 So far, about 254 rural and indigenous Igbomina communities in three local government areas of Kwara State, according to the NGO, have benefited from the free treatment.

 Speaking recently in Oro town in the Ifelodun local government area, the sponsor of the free health care initiative, Engineer Nurudeen Adeyemi, said that an average of 1,200 people were being treated every month since the programme commenced. 

 Adeyemi explained that the healthcare scheme, from which he said many women, the young ones and the aged have benefited from, is done on rotational basis within communities in the local government areas of Isin, Ifelodun, and Irepodun twice a month. 

He said ailments such as malaria, diabetes and high blood pressure, among other killer diseases were common among the people, but that many lives had been saved through diagnosis and treatment.

 The philanthropist, who said that there was a huge deficiency in the health sector, particularly in the rural communities, called on the three tiers of government to fix the challenges inhibiting quality health care delivery among the people.

 “Many communities in the Igbomina land lack access to quality health care facilities,” he said, adding that there was a plan to use a larger platform to extend the services to other parts of the state. 

 Adeyemi, who is a United States of America-trained automobile engineer and vehicle designer, said that his interest in community development and humanitarian activities stemmed from the need to improve the health lot of the people in many Kwara State communities. 

 He also called on political office holders to make governance work for everyone in order to improve well-being of the people, saying that problems of agitation usually stem from lack of access to education. 

He also said that education should be made a level playing field, rather than a limiting factor to a better future.