The Director General made reiteration in his address read during the 2025 first quarter NYSC Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers, HIRD, programme held at Imafon community in Akure North local government area of Ondo State.

Nafiu stated that NYSC decided to bring out the HIRD programme with the aim of mobilising volunteer Corps Medical Personnel to rural communities to give adequate medical attention to rural dwellers, who ordinarily might not have access to such as a result of neglect and remoteness of their location.

The one star General said that his focus was to reposition the scheme and make it be at the forefront of addressing the hazard occasioned by health challenges and inadequacies faced by citizens and residents of rural communities nationwide.

“I, therefore beseech the community dwellers and its environs to seize the opportunity of this programme to improve their health status, as this will lead to drastic reduction in the cases of untimely deaths among you. This will equally enhance the health care of the beneficiaries.”

He charged them to feel free to discuss any of their confidential health related challenges with corps medical personnel that will be attending to them in the course of the exercise, while assuring them that the management of the scheme had brought competent, tested and experienced professionals to their doorstep.

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The Director General who was represented by the NYSC Ondo State Coordinator, Mrs. Kuburat Omowumi Bakare, appreciated all those behind the success of the event, saying that their unwavering support and commitment in diverse ways had continued to sustain the programme over the years.

The State NYSC Governing Board Chairman who was represented by the Director,  Youth Development in the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Mrs. Catherine Okukpe, disclosed that the quarterly programme was organised to promote the well-being of people at the grassroots by competent corps medical personnel who give standard and topnotch free medical services to citizens and residents of benefitting communities.

The chairman said that the government of Ondo State was appreciative of the gesture which he said was seen as an extension of the government policy of healthcare for all and sundry.

The chairman pledged to strengthen the partnership with the NYSC scheme and seek ways to expand its reach and enable more people of the state to benefit from its provision.

The arrowhead of the apex policy maker for the scheme in Ondo State pledged the support of the state government and their readiness to provide all necessary collaboration to ensure that the initiative did not become a thing of the past.

The Olumafon of Imafon Kingdom, Oba Samuel Aliu Adegbehingbe, in his goodwill message applauded NYSC for bringing such privilege to his kingdom.

The traditional ruler used the occasion to call on stakeholders to rally support for the NYSC so that life-touching impact of the scheme would be felt in all the nooks and crannies of the country.

Highlights of the programme was the health talk which touched on key areas of medical and health challenges such as Hypertension, Blood Pressure, Diabetes and maintainance of clean environment.

Participants were screened and attended to while drugs were freely given to those who presented their medical cases and history to the corps medical personnel.

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The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Engr. Funso Adeniyi, made the announcement at the OAUTH Complex in Ile-Ife at a meeting with the stakeholders.

Adeniyi, during the meeting with the stakeholders of the hospital which includes, Dr Afolabi Owojuyigbe, former Acting CMD and Prof. Olayinka Adegbehingbe, who acted for one week, said the crisis over headship of the hospital had been resolved.

The permanent secretary noted that with the peaceful meeting, “OAUTH is back to its stand”.

According to him, the process for the appointment of the substantive Chief Medical Director for teaching hospital will commence in earnest.

The appointment of Salawu, a professor of Haematologist, as the Acting CMD of the hospital for a maximum period of six months, takes immediate effect.

Source: NAN

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Prof Bernice Adegbehingbe, Head of Ophthalmology at OAUTHC, made the disclosure during an interview with News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on the 2023 World Glaucoma Week.

The theme of this year’s event is “The world is bright, save your sight”.

This year’s World Glaucoma Week from March 13 to 16, features Glaucoma awareness talk, radio programme and screening for the patients, among others.

According to her, Glaucoma leads to total blindness and the common causes of irreversible blindness.

Adegbehingbe, a Consultant Ophthalmologist, said that early diagnosis remained the only way out to avoid glaucoma.

The ophthalmologist stated that anybody above 40-years with family history of diabetes, hypo/hypertension, migraine, sickle cell patients are prone to have glaucoma, because it is hereditary.

She advised all to check their eyes at least once in two years, for them to ensure their safety optically for 50 per cent.

Adegbehingbe condemned the lackaidasical attitudes of Nigeria leaders over the health and eye care.

She said that only government workers were enjoying health insurance scheme, compared to what obtained in developing countries.

She urged government to mandate glaucoma test for students seeking admission from primary to tertiary institutions as well as the job seekers in order to eradicate the diseases among the young and aged.

Adegbehingbe noted that while eye sight of cataract patient could be restored through surgery, glaucoma had no remedy.

She commended government and private bodies which organised cataract surgery, free eye screening and glasses for the public and called for more emphasis on glaucoma.

She appealed to government and philantorpists to subsidise drugs for glaucoma patients in view of their high costs.

Adegbehingbe also urged government to place treatment and drugs for glaucoma patients under NHIS for the relief of the patients.

Also, the President, Glaucoma Association of Nigeria, OAUTHC, Mrs Lydia Oke, lauded ophthalmologists at the teaching hospital for giving glaucoma patients the best treatment.

Oke urged government to come to their aid by subsidising their drugs which she said were too expensive, saying that many glaucoma patients were already going blind due to inadequate care.

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