The Accord Senatorial Candidate for Oyo South, Mr. Idris Kolapo Kola-Daisi, has organized free medical check-up services for residents of Oyo South Senatorial District of the State.
He sponsored the program in partnership with the Medical Aid for Africa, to create sensitisation and relieve for those suffering from one ailment or the other.
The free medical check-ups which includes checkup for diabetics, eye check and free eye glasses, hypertension check, free medical aid, free consultation and general check up among others were done with drugs and counseling provided by medical experts to the beneficiaries.
He stated that about 10,000 people in Oyo South Senatorial District would benefit from the three-day free medical outreach.
Items to be giving to beneficiaries are blood pressure medication, diaphragm to children and dental tools for less previleged who can not afford them.
Speaking in Ibadan during the outreach, the Accord candidate described the outreach as one of his “E je ka Dasi” projects, saying health of his constituents remained his priority.
He said the timing for the outreach was good, considering what is going on in the country which has led many people into stress as well as depression due to hardship.
“We want to reach out to thousands of people on their health issues, this exercise would be continuous and it shall be sustained every year when we get to office.
“We are even considering taking the medical outreach to the people in their various communities, so that there wont be needs for them to travel far to access health care and treatments.
“Our people need to be healthy, and this shall be part of our mandate when we get to the office because it is an intervention that we think it is necessary for our people,” he said.
In his remarks, leader of the medical team from Medical Aid for Africa, Dr. Sabu George noted that one of the focuses of the medical outreach was to increase awareness among the people on hypertension and importance of taking its medicine on regular basis.
He said, “One on the biggest challenges we have seen is that people believe hypertension is a disease someone can treat in a short period of time because it doesn’t have a specific symptoms, so many people stop taking the medicine because they think it has been cured with the medicine they have taken.
“People need to know that it is silent killer disease is with them once they are diagnose with it, they need to take the medicine strictly, and for them to know that the medicine are not expensive and can be get locally in Nigeria.”
Meanwhile, the Director General of the campaign group, Chief Sunday Babalola described the medical outreach as a pointer to one of the cardinal programs of Kola-Daisi which is free health for women and children in the constituency.
