Former Senate President Ahmad Lawan has kicked-off free medical care for poor and aged constituents in his Yobe North Senatorial District.
The medical outreach, which, takes place annually, has been on for the last six years and is sponsored by the Senator Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan (SAIL) Foundation.
The approved centres for the sixth SAIL Medical Outreach Programme 2023 are the General Hospital, Gashua; and Federal Medical Centre, Nguru, according to a statement by Lawan’s media aide, Ezrel Tabiowo, in Abuja.
Speaking during the ceremony on Saturday, at the Federal Medical Centre, Nguru, Senator Lawan said the medical outreach by the SAIL Foundation was aimed to complement the body efforts of the Yobe State Government under the leadership of Governor Mai Mala Buni.
He lauded the Ministry of Health for partnering with the foundation in ensuring improved quality of healthcare for citizens of the state.
The former Senate President said that the partnership with the Ministry of Health facilitated the establishment of healthcare facilities across the various local government areas in Yobe North.
Lawan said: “Let me assure you that by the grace of God we will continue with this programme in the coming years, and we will always like to improve on what we have done before.
“The adages, “health is wealth” and “a healthy nation is a wealthy nation”, are facts. We want to ensure that our people are healthy, so that they can go about their normal businesses.
“Our intervention has been to support those people who are not only challenged but who have less or probably even nothing to fight those challenges.
“In society, those who have should support those who don’t have or who have less; that is why the SAIL foundation instituted this particular programme, and as we do today, we also provided for our livestock vaccination activities simultaneously.
“This morning, we launched and flagged-off in Yusufari local government, the livestock vaccination programme. It is our desire to not only make our people healthy but our animals.
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“I am happy to note that what we do in our medical outreach is even touching on some of our neighbours from Jigawa, Bauchi and so on. I wish we could do more but we will try to do better than this.
“What we do is to simply complement what the Yobe State government has been doing. Our state government has been doing so well in health and others areas, too. And, therefore, this token is in support of what it has been doing.
“I want to commend Governor Mai Mala Buni, for working so hard to ensure that our population are so healthy, and, of course, very productive.
“I want to also take this opportunity to commend President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, who has taken health as part of those areas of priority for this administration.
“We will continue to support Mr. President to ensure that we are able to deliver completely, the improved healthcare for our people. And, of course, the “Renewed Hope” agenda will be realised when we all work together.”