Foundation sponsors free medical outreach for less-privileged in Katsina
By Faith A. M
No fewer than 500 less-privileged Katsina citizens have benefited from a free medical outreach organised by the owner of MaxAir, Alhaji Dahiru Mangal, at the Katsina General Hospital.
The Dahiru Mangal Foundation carried out the five-day medical outreach during which the beneficiaries were treated for various ailments.
Some of the ailments included hernia, hydrocele (swelling of the scrotum) cataract and others as well as medical counsel.
Speaking during the outreach at the weekend, a member of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, Mallam Hussaini Kabir, said the programme was for the second quarter of the year 2024.
Kabir noted that the beneficiaries were selected from across all the 34 Local Government Areas of the state, including some from neighbouring states.
“This medical outreach programme is a quarterly intervention by the Foundation, in each quarter we reach out to less privileged persons who are facing various health challenges.
“In this quarter, we are treating patients with hernia, hydrocele and cataract, where our team of medical personnel use some operating theatres of the General Hospital.
“Before each outreach programme, we received the names and other details of beneficiaries and screen them to ascertain their health challenges.
“After which we fix the dates for the exercise and invite them in batches. After treatment, each patient is given free drugs for the period of their recovery.
“The Foundation, initiated in 2016, had also sponsored surgical operations on thousands of patients across the state, neighbouring states and also in Niger Republic,” he said.
