*Kicks off free medical outreach for over 10,000 constituents
By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Accord Senatorial candidate for Oyo South Senatorial District Mr Idris Kolapo Kola Daisi on Wednesday, said he will prioritise the health of the people of the Senatorial District
Mr Kolapo Kola Daisi stated this in Ibadan while speaking at the flag off of from his three-day free medical outreach declared that remained his priority
The Oyo South Senatorial candidate disclosed that no fewer than 10,000 people in the Senatorial District are to benefit from the 3 three-day free medical outreach.
According to Mr Kolapo Kola -Daisi, the free medical outreach is to cover areas such as checkups for diabetics, eye checks and free eyeglasses, hypertension checks, free medical aid, free consultation and general checkups.
He stressed that the outreach was one of his “E je ka Dasi” projects for the people of his Senatorial District to be on continuous basis and shall be sustained every year when he is elected as the Senator representing Oyo South Senatorial District.
Emphasizing that the health of his constituents remained his priority, the Senatorial candidate said the timing for the outreach was good considering the stress many have been experiencing due to the cash and fuel scarcities.
“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”, he said
Kolapo Kola-Daisi added, “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.”
Speaking, leader of the team from Medical Aid for Africa, Dr. Sabu Geoge disclosed that one of the goals of the outreach was to increase awareness of people on hypertension and the importance of taking medicine on regular basis.
“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.”
In his remarks, the Director General of Kolapo Kola-Daisi campaign group, Chief Sunday Babalola said 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.
