The 2022 free medical and surgical healthcare intervention programme of the Kwara State government started Friday at Malete, Moro local government area of the state.
The state commissioner for health, Dr Raji Razaq, said the intervention was brought up to create opportunities for members of the public with various health challenges to have access to free quality healthcare.
Raji explained that members of the public would get free medical consultancy, general surgery, eye surgery and provision of reading glasses.
While speaking with the beneficiaries, community leaders and health workers in Malete, the commissioner reiterated the commitment of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s administration to providing succour to all segments of the society.
He explained that the free healthcare service was being moved from one community to the other on a weekly basis and that all the local government areas of the state would be visited.
Also, satisfaction was expressed satisfaction with the quality of services being rendered and further explained that the commencement of the 2022 round of medical outreach marked the onset of the eighth round of community based state-wide healthcare interventions embarked upon by the AbdulRazaq administration.
Matron who is in charge of Comprehensive Health Centre, Malete, Alhaja Afusat Mohammed, expressed happiness at government’s concern for the less privileged who she noted usually find it difficult to afford the cost of such surgical services.