1,000 Ondo residents get free medical service

Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has begun a monthly outreach which offers free medical services to residents of Akure, the state capital.

The programme, which began on Monday, August 5, 2024, under the supervision of the Akure South Local Government Chairman, Gbenga Fasua, has seen the medical treatment of 1,000 ailing residents in Akure.

This was according to a statement, on Tuesday, by the Personal Assistant to the Chairman, Akure-South Local Government, Iteyemi Adegoroye.

Joined in supervision by the chairman of Akure East Local Council Development Area, Mr Taiwo Samson, and his counterparts in Akure West LCDA, Sunday Kekereowo, and Oyemekun LCDA, Ifedayo Ologometa, medics on hand treated various categories of ailment, in gratis.

In his remarks, Fasua said, “This complies with an aspect of the various palliative programmes designed by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to assist the less-privileged in this testing period; many who cannot afford the costs of medical treatment.

“It is a continuous exercise as it will be held every month, with the deployment of medical experts to attend to various categories of ailment, at no cost.”

He said apart from distributing food items to vulnerable residents, Aiyedatiwa’s administration also recently released over N2bn as soft loans to petty traders, farmers, artisans, and young entrepreneurs.

The governor, according to Fasua, has also mobilised road and other contractors back to the site, apart from awarding fresh contracts to provide basic social amenities.

“We, the newly appointed Transition Committee chairmen, have also keyed into Mr Governor’s lofty agenda by initiating various forms of palliative programmes to put smiles on the faces of the masses.

“In the same vein, the state government, in concert with respective local administrations, has introduced a Community Market to provide subsidised food items and agricultural seedlings to the people,” the chairman said.