No fewer than 3000 persons are to get free eye treatment and cataract surgery, courtesy of Hajiya Asama’u Yahaya, Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya’s wife.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the free eye surgeries and treatment will be carried out by Jewel Care Foundation, Mrs Yahaya’s project, at the Gombe State Specialist Hospital, Gombe.
This is contained in a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Media and Publicity, Office of the Governor’s Wife, Bintu Sunmonu, and made available to news men in Gombe on Saturday.
Sunmonu said the treatment and surgery was being organised by Jewel Care Foundation, in collaboration with Qatar Charity and Future Leaders Foundation.
She said the gesture was informed by the Governor’s wife concern over the increasing number of people with eye problems in the state.
The media aide called on the general public to avail themselves of the opportunity in order to improve their health.
She explained that the medical outreach was a week long programme which began on Thursday, and was expected to end on March 30.
Sunmonu said that beneficiaries were expected to undergo screening at the general hospitals in the three senatorial districts of the state, before getting a referral to the Specialist Hospital Gombe.
She further said 2,000 patients were expected to receive treatment and medications on various eye ailments, 800 would get glasses and more than 300 were expected to undergo cataract surgery.
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NAN reports that a similar outreach was conducted by the foundation in June last year, and more than 2000 persons benefited from the exercise.
