The Federal Government is to sponsor the medical surgeries of no fewer than 10, 000 indigent patients of various ailments within three months across the country. The medical director of Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Katsina, Dr. Umar Farouk Abdulmajid, who made this known to journalists in Katsina, stated that 30 of the patients would undergo harniaropics while 20 others were booked for hysterectomy.Dr. Abdulmajid stressed that the programme being coordinated by Federal Ministry of Health would be funded by the Federal Government as part of the efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari administration to bring succor to less privileged patients that could not afford the services rendered to them.
Also speaking in Katsina, the team leader of the surgeons, Dr. Habibu Ibrahim, assured that they were capable and prepared to handle all the cases referred to them. Dr. Ibrahim however appealed to well meaning individuals and groups to complement the federal government’s initiative and bring succor to more indigent Nigerians.
He described the free medical surgery programme as one of the milestones so far recorded by the present administration in its efforts to touch the lives of the ordinary man.
Source:Leadership online
