Mustafa Abubakar
Ilorin — The LEAH Charity Foundation, a pet project of the Kwara State First Lady, Mrs. Omolewa Ahmed is offering free drugs, eye glasses and cataract operation for patients in Baruten Local Government Area of the state.
Mrs Ahmed, who disclosed this Wednesday in Ilesha-Baruba area of the council area while flagging off her mobile clinic programmes, said her Foundation was in partnership with the state Ministry of Health as well as several local and foreign organizations to provide free qualitative healthcare services to the people, stressing that the project was aimed at reducing the number cataract patients "to less than 10 percent of the 2011 base year figure by 2015".
She added that her programme, Omolewa Safe Motherhood Initiative, earlier launched in September at Alapa Cottage Hospital in Asa Local Government Area of the state, was aimed at tackling maternal and child mortality across the state.
Speaking on behalf of the Emir of Ilesha-Baruba, Alhaji Usman Bio Abubakar, a community leader Adam Yakubu, commended the first lady's initiative.
The Commissioner for Health, Kayode Abdul Issa, described the first lady's mobile clinic initiative as crucial to the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the state's health sector.
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