Health · 2022
Free surgical and medical outreach
A January to February 2022 outreach that screened around 100 cases, funded about 46 surgeries costing ₦500,000 to ₦1 million each, and distributed 2,000 pairs of reading glasses.
- Date
- 1 February 2022
- Location
- Masha, Surulere
- Beneficiaries
- 100
- Status
- Completed
- Partners
- Edna Specialist Hospital, ARD-LUTH, BetNaija, Nigerian Breweries, Express Solutions
Between January and February 2022 the constituency office ran its largest health programme: a free outreach at Masha that screened around a hundred residents and paid for roughly forty-six surgeries, each costing between ₦500,000 and ₦1 million, with partners at Edna Specialist Hospital and the Association of Resident Doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Two thousand pairs of reading glasses were distributed in the same programme.
The outreach was sponsored in part by BetNaija, Nigerian Breweries and Express Solutions. He has said repeatedly that he cannot fund this work alone, and the partnership model became the template for later programmes.