No fewer than 10,000 people in Oyo South Senatorial District would benefit from the three-day free medical outreach sponsored by the candidate of Accord Idris Kolapo Kola-Daisi.
The outreach will include checkups for diabetics, eye checks and free eyeglasses, hypertension checks, free medical aid, free consultation and general checkups.
Speaking in Ibadan during the outreach, the Accord candidate described the outreach as one of his “E je ka Dasi” projects, saying the health of constituents remained his priority.
He said the timing for the outreach was good considering the stress many have been experiencing due to the cash and fuel scarcities.
According to him: “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 the office.
“We are even considering taking the medical outreach to people in their various communities so that there won’t 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 is necessary for our people.”
The leader of the team from Medical Aid for Africa, Dr. Sabu Geoge, said one of the goals of the outreach was to increase awareness of people on hypertension and the importance of taking medicine on regular basis.
He said: “One of the biggest challenges we have seen is that people believe hypertension is a disease someone can treat a little bit of time because it doesn’t have 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 the silent killer disease is with them once they are diagnosed with it. They need to take the medicine strictly and for them to know that the medicine is not expensive and can get it locally.”
Director General of the campaign group, Chief Sunday Babalola, described the outreach as a pointer to one of the cardinal programme of Kola-Daisi which is free health for women and children in the constituency.