‘We spent N200m on indigent patients in months’

OYO State Government has spent close to N200 million in the past six months on helping indigent patients to seek care both in Nigeria and abroad, as such the state now revitalising its health system to stop capital plight.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Azeez Adeduntan made the disclosure at the opening of a two-day free medical mission organised by Marian Adeoti Akosile Foundation (MAAF) in collaboration with the State Ministry of health at the Cathedral of Saint Peter, Aremo Hall, Ibadan.

According to him, the commonest source of sudden death in Nigeria is heart attack usually caused by high blood pressure and high blood glucose, termed diabetes, which can cause shock and result into untimely death.

Adeduntan stressed further that people must go for routine check up to diagnose , monitor and maintain good health in order to prevent untimely deaths.

While expressing appreciation to the organisers of the free medical mission, he called for increased support from well meaning and motivated Nigerians for provision of health services.

Coordinator, Marian Adeoti Akosile Foundation, Mrs Beatrice Williams declared that the free medical mission was to enlighten people in the community on hypertension and diabetes that were ignorant of need for regular blood pressure and sugar measurements.

She added the programme which is to be hosted yearly was also to provide free lunch to the 1000 beneficiaries of the 2-day free medical mission.

The Foundation, she declared, was set up in honour of her late mother who died of stroke because she was not monitoring her blood pressure and sugar levels regularly.