Constituents of Surulere I were recipients of free surgeries, treatment and medication sponsored by the lawmaker representing them in the House of Assembly, Desmond Elliot, and the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
This is part of the activities to mark the lawmaker’s birthday celebrated every February 4.
About 100 beneficiaries were booked for surgeries for ailments such as fibroid, hernia, prostate, lump in the breast, among others.
The lawmaker said that the gesture was also to alleviate people’s sufferings.
He said his intervention in health care had been a consecutive one, but this was unique owing to the many ailments that would be addressed.
Elliot said each surgery per patient costs between N500,000 and N1 million, adding that a particular case costs about N1.2 million.
“Today and tomorrow will be for screenings for prostate, hepatitis A, B, and C, eye defects, diabetes, hypertension, blood pressure and others. We are giving out over 2,000 glasses,” he said.
The former Vice Chairman of ARD-LUTH, Dr. Adebayo Awoniyi, who led the team to the outreach, said the association decided to join the initiative because it was expedient to help the masses.
He noted that about 100 patients required various kinds of surgeries, with 46 done already and more to come.
Speakers of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila and Lagos House of Assembly Mudashiru Obasa presented plaques to the doctors for their selfless service to the people.