The chairman Ganye local government, Adamawa state, Hon. Jibrin Ali Gangjari and the entire Ganye chiefdom, represented by the Gangwari Ganye, HRH, Dr. Umar Adamu Sanda have thanked the Association of Paediatric Surgeons of Nigerian, APSON for bringing medical outreach to their community where the less privileged patients would benefit from the free treatment; both the surgical and the medical care.
In particular, the duo have commended the Chief Medical Director, Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, MAUTH Yola, Prof Auwal Muhammad Abubakar, the national president of the APSON, who is equally holding the Sarkin Gabas traditional title of the Chiefdom for making it possible that the Ganye chiefdom hosts the medical outreach.
The chairman said the local council would liaise with the security agencies to ensure the provision of adequate security from beginning to the end of the medical exercise
Earlier in his welcome address, during the opening ceremony on Friday, the chairman local organising committee, Prof Ussang E. Ussang has revealed that the 3-day medical outreach is being organised as part of the activities marking the APSON’s 21st Scientific Conference and Annual General Meeting, AGM, tagged FOMBINA 2022, scheduled to hold in Yola, Adamawa state, from Monday, September 26 to Saturday, October 1, 2022.
Prof Ussang has assured that the free healthcare services would not be restricted just to paediatric surgery, it would also cover the adult and the medical cases.
Prof Ussang said a team of high powered professionals cut across the clinical specialties are on ground along with adequate facilities that would make the medical outreach effective and efficient.
The LOC chairman has solicited for the maximum cooperation of the beneficiaries who have since started receiving treatment.
The LOC chairman has acknowledged the contributions of the local government chairman in providing adequate accommodation, security and other logistics and the support of the Gangwari Ganye who not only welcomed the programme in his chiefdom, he has also provided sumptuous launch when the team visited him at his palace during the facility inspection.
While corroborating, Prof Auwal Muhammad Abubakar, the national chairman of the APSON explained that it is the tradition of the association to organise medical outreach as part of the activities marking its annual scientific conference and the AGM
Prof Auwal said the medical team has come with enough medical equipment and consumables that would be left for use after the medical outreach, which remained a bonus to the general hospital Ganye.
Prof Auwal said the medical outreach was a collective undertaking where as a corporate social responsibility, the FHI, the red cross and other donor and health agencies, the pharmaceutical, private clinics and hospitals among others have given their contributions.
Worthy of mention were the state government, the management of Modibbo Adama University, MAU Yola, the Ganye local government chairman and the Gangwari Ganye.
The APSON President has also commended the efforts of the local organising committee and the medical team.
Patients from within and outside Ganye local government, the headquarters of the chiefdom, have since arrived at the General Hospital for the free medical services.
