LASG, foundation partner on free medical outreach

Poised to assistance arsenic galore Lagos residents arsenic imaginable with assorted wellness challenges, the Onome Omobolaji Obada Foundation (OOOF) partnered with Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu connected a one-week aesculapian outreach astatine Military Hospital successful Ikoyi, Lagos.

According to the laminitis and convener, United Lagos and chairperson of OOOF, Votu Obada, the instauration was created to honour and immortalise his precocious sister, who died from sickle-cell disease.

He said, “We brought the outreach to Lagos astatine the governor’s behest and besides due to the fact that we cognize radical often neglect their wellness owed to the engaged manner here. This is the 3rd edition, but our archetypal clip successful Lagos.”

Obada said the one-week outreach saw implicit 5,000 radical and covered hundreds of surgical operations, oculus surgeries, dental work, and regular checkups, portion much terrible cases were referred to specializer hospitals. He mentioned plans to broaden their scope by partnering with planetary cardiac doctors to code cardiac issues arsenic well.

“We worked with United Lagos and the Military Hospital connected this project. I indispensable besides convey Governor Sanwo-Olu, who insisted we travel to Lagos. It was his idea, and helium supported america each the way. We anticipation to instrumentality this to astatine slightest 10 locations crossed the authorities adjacent time. I’m calling connected well-meaning Nigerians to instrumentality up antithetic projects crossed the committee to assistance 1 another; the aboriginal is astir collaboration,” helium said.

Project coordinator Chidi Nwakpa noted that the turnout was awesome and that they attended to everyone to the champion of their abilities. “This outreach has been precise impactful due to the fact that we saw radical battling wellness issues for years but couldn’t bash thing astir it owed to deficiency of funds. People came from arsenic acold arsenic Delta, Ibadan, and Osun states to beryllium here; it humbled america greatly,” helium said.

Adebayo Bolatito, who underwent a fibroid operation, shared that she was primitively expected to person country astatine Military Hospital successful Ibadan. “The pistillate I was expected to conscionable determination told maine they were doing a escaped outreach successful Lagos and advised maine to go, and the remainder is history.” Adebayo revealed she was told she needed country a twelvemonth agone aft undergoing an abdominal scan owed to continuous pain. “I was told I would request N500,000 for the fibroid operation, which I didn’t have, but my parent told maine a occurrence would happen.”

Praising the organisers, she thanked them for their benevolence and philanthropy. “When I was told I needed surgery, I was truthful afraid, not conscionable of the cognition but of the costs. We hadn’t adjacent eaten—where would I get fractional a cardinal from? They saved my life,” she said.

Another beneficiary, Rukayat Yakub, who besides underwent fibroid removal, said she had been battling the ailment for implicit 2 years with nary help. A parent of four, she struggled to get by and couldn’t spend infirmary visits, but erstwhile the symptom became unbearable, she sought assistance from a matron. “I was told I needed urgent surgery, but erstwhile I told my husband, helium said helium couldn’t spend the operation, which was estimated astatine fractional a cardinal naira. Shortly after, my member alerted maine to this outreach, and helium brought maine present himself.”

She thanked the Lagos State Governor and the instauration for coming to her aid, arsenic good arsenic the different beneficiaries.

Tolu Daramola, different beneficiary, expressed her gratitude to the organisers. “I was told determination was a complication, but they adjacent took attraction of that. I had been managing fibroids for astir 2 years but started having complications precocious past twelvemonth and was told I needed urgent country due to the fact that I wouldn’t halt bleeding. I bled truthful overmuch that my humor number dropped to 19 percent, and they couldn’t bash country due to the fact that of this. Last month, I yet got it up to 30 percent, and coincidentally, this accidental came up. When I initially outgo the procedure, I was told I would request fractional a million—N350,000 for the country and N150,000 for post-op care. They did everything for free. I cannot deliberation of a bigger occurrence than this and accidental convey you to them due to the fact that they practically saved my life,” she said.