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From Lateef Dada, Osogbo
Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke, on Tuesday, presented a health insurance scheme card to the people living with disabilities (PLWDs) across the state for access to free health care.
Adeleke, who is celebrating the second year anniversary in office, also donated life-support gadgets and state-of-the-art medical aids to the PLWDs to make life more meaningful for them.
According to him, thousands of wheelchairs (manual and automated), crutches, walking sticks, talking watches, artificial limbs, hearing aids, ultraviolet umbrellas, cream and glasses—for albinos and many more other gadgets—were also donated, promising that some of them will undergo free surgical procedures to cure their ailments.
Speaking at Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo, during the distribution, he said, “They are my people; they voted for me, and they have been doing everything to support me.”
Earlier, the executive secretary of Osun Health Insurance Agency (OSHIA), Dr. Rasaq Akindele, commended Governor Adeleke for the enrolment of 9,500 PLWD, (physically disabled, spinal cord patient, deaf, dumb, blind and the albinos) into OHIS completely free of charge.
He noted that the government has also enrolled over twenty three thousand pensioners into the Osun Health Insurance Scheme (OHIS) completely free of charge and more than three hundred people living with HIV into the OHIS free of charge.
He disclosed that six patients have been supported for renal transplant while a patient was supported for complete hip replacement and so many other catastrophic medical conditions.
