Over 2,000 residents of Kogi state have benefited from a free medical treatment initiative by Dr. Baoku Olushola.
Olushola, a medical doctor with the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Lokoja, on Saturday, organised a free medical treatment outreach for over 2,000 patients in Karara, Lokoja local government area of Kogi state.
Speaking with newsmen, Dr. Olushola said he has been organising ‘Health at Your Doorstep’ initiative for some years, but with a recent grant from ‘Friends of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’, he has decided to scale up his outreaches.
“I am a person who believe in this philosophy that if God blesses you, you increase your standard of giving and not of living. Over the years I started “Health at Your Doorsteps” where we locate a community, go there and treat them free of charge.
“Recently, I became a beneficiary of ‘Friends of Prof’, an annual initiative of friends of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Someone nominated me for the grant which I got last month or thereabout and I felt this is another opportunity for me to do what I use to do. So immediately I got the grant, I took the money and contacted some of my friends – ten doctors and twenty nurses – and we located Karara which is one of the largest communities in Kogi state for this programme.
“People with different ailment such as malaria, typhoid, high blood pressure, diabetes, stomach ulcers etc were attended to and given drugs without paying a dime,” he said.
According to Olushola, most of the beneficiaries were children, women and men.
While thanking the Vice President and his league of friends for giving him the opportunity to reach out to the down trodden, Dr. Olushola appealed to well to do individuals to reach out to people no matter how small.
“I want to use the opportunity to tell the Vice President that what he gave me through his friends have touched many lives and I am fulfilled.”
Some of the beneficiaries, John Abuh, Hajara Abdulkadir and Idris Ibrahim expressed appreciation to Dr. Baoku Olushola for his philanthropic disposition which they said is worthy of emulation.
They thanked Prof. Osinbajo for the grant and prayed God to reward and take him higher.
