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By Akanji Alowolodo, Gombe
Emir of Akko in Akko Local Government Area of Gombe State, Alhaji Umar Atiku has commended Klytical Allied Nigeria Limited for organizing a medical outreach in his domain for the benefit of his subjects.
Klytical Allied Nigeria Limited is a medical support arm of the presidential campaign group of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, it has been going round the country providing free medical services to the vulnerable people.
The traditional ruler thanked the team for choosing Akko Emirate for the outreach saying that it was a service to humanity which must be commended.
He then told his subjects that such gesture should be reciprocated by ensuring that they got their PVCs ready and vote for the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for his service to humanity.
The team lead, Dr Vincent Okpara who conducted the medical outreach and free feeding for 8000 people in Akko Local Government Area of Gombe stste said that it was sponsored by Seyi Tinibu, son of the APC Presidential candidate.
The team during the outreach, gave drugs and eyeglasses to the patients and referred those that needed referrals to hospitals.
Another arm of the outreach, Hearth Summit, discussed health manifesto of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in a town hall meeting with community leaders from the area.
The free medical outreach catered for 5000 people across the LGA as much as offering tests and gave them free drugs, medicated glasses referring those tested but had need for referral to tertiary institutions in the state.
The free feeding programme targeted less privileged specifically the IDP community, where they fed 3,000 people.
He explained that the choice of Akko LGA was informed by the fact that it is the largest LGA with the highest number of eligible voters in the state.
Vincent Okpara said that, “We have been able to tell people what they will benefit when Asiwaju Bola Tinibu becomes the president in terms of the health sector. There will be improved health sector in his time, the emergency medicine which is already comatose, will be giving life again.”
He said that an average citizen sees ambulance as something that carries corpses, saying,”that is not supposed to be so. If an ambulance comes close to an individual, it supposed to give you hope, but an average citizen of Nigeria sees ambulance as something that is coming to carry dead body.
“We came to tell them that the emergency health service during Asiwaju presidency will be revitalized. We are about to benefit a lot even with the National Health insurance scheme is going to cover more people, between 70 to 80 per cent are to benefit.”
According to him, the Crowd was so much very pleased because of the drugs given to them,”drugs they cannot afford, we gave them. We offered them prescription and we went ahead and gave them.”
The outreach witnessed a high turnout of residents in a move to benefit from the medical treatment, including elderly people in an atmosphere full of joy.
Our correspondent reports that there was a massive door-to-door campaign going on in Akko which was inaugurated after the town hall meeting with community leaders.
