In its efforts to contribute to the health of the citizens, not less than 1,500 persons on Monday benefited from the national youth service corps (NYSC) Medical Outreach in the Kware Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
Speaking at the event held at Sarkin Yarma primary school Kware, the NYSC state coordinator Alhaji Muhammad Nakamba said the gesture is through NYSC Health Initiative For Rural Dwellers.(HIRD)
According to Nakamba the programme is aimed at mobilizing corps members to provide health intervention to the general public especially those in the rural areas.
“In Sokoto, this is the second phase of the medical outreach this year, the first one took place at Wamakko local government some months ago” he stated.
He maintained that NYSC had impacted positively on the people of the state through community development service (CDS) particularly in Education, Health and environmental sanitation.
While commending the corps members for their dedication to service while describing them as qualified to offer the medical services. Nakamba thanked the people for their impressive turnout and their cooperation towards the success of the outreach.
In his remarks, the leader of the medical team Dr Ihejirika Hezekiah Ekeledo said malaria has the highest number of cases followed by childhood diarrhoea and hypertension.
Dr Ihejirika further disclosed that some patients were referred to specialist hospitals for follow up due to the nature of their ailments stressing that most referrals are surgical.
Responding on behalf of the beneficiaries the district head of Kware Sarkin Yamma Alhaji Muhammad Dan’Iya represented by DanGaladima Kware Alhaji Ahmad Balarabe thanked NYSC for considering his community for the outreach.
While calling NYSC to make the exercise a routine one and their benevolence gesture, he appealed to other agencies to emulate NYSC.
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