Sen. Babajide Omoworare (APC-Osun East) has provided free medical treatment to more than 500 indigent patients in his senatorial district.
Speaking at the beginning of the treatment for the beneficiaries who converged at Oranmiyan Grammar School, Ile-Ife on Sunday, Omoworare told them that he deemed fit to fund the medical outreach based on his conviction that “health is wealth”.
“I decided to organise this programne because it is a useless community that will not care for its people and the healthy people will work effectively and pay their taxes accordingly.
“I observed that many people were suffering for renal failure that leads to kidney challenges, for this ailment is a silent killer which has no symptoms,” he said.
The senator urged the people to make regular medical check up a habit so as to detect early many silent killer diseases such renal failure and diabetes.
He also stressed the importance of training and re-training of medical personnel in the health sector so as to reduce medical tourism among the elites.
Earlier, Mrs Pero Adeniyi, the Founder of “Alive Kidney Foundation”, expressed regret that many victims of kidney diseases have been abandoned to their fate because the financial burden was too heavy on their loved ones.
Adeniyi appealed to the Federal Government to come to the aids of the less privileged suffering renal failure in view of financial implications.
Contributing, one of the care givers at the foundation, Mrs Eniola Titiloye-Adeniyi, identified factors such as smoking of cigratte, India helm and alcoholism as the major causes of kidney failure.
Titiloye-Adeniyi advised the people to refrain fro self-medication and food supplements not prescribed by the doctors, saying they can cause kidney disease.
The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the health programme, tagged “Ilera Loro”, was organised for free screening of those suffering from prostrate cancer, high blood pressure renal failure and eye diseases.
(NAN)