The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has carried out a medical outreach for about 2,000 rural people at the Dandagoro community, Batagarawa Local Government Area of Katsina State.
The medical outreach, which took place on Thursday, was the 2024 second quarter of the NYSC’s Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers (HIRD) programme.
Alhaji Sa’idu Ibrahim, the NYSC Coordinator in the state, said about N1.5 million was sourced by the corps Doctors for the exercise.
According to him, the support was sourced from well-meaning individuals and pharmaceutical companies in the state as well as the state’s Ministry of Health.
Ibrahim explained that the aim was to carry out the treatment for the indigent sick rural dwellers who could not access the medical facility in the township centre.
“Over 2,000 beneficiaries, majority of whom were the elderly, women and children, were treated during the exercise,” the coordinator said.
Ibrahim further enjoined the people of the community to sustain their goodwill to the scheme and the corps members serving in their localities.
He told them that the sponsorship of corps members’ projects and other gestures to accommodate and comfort them would attract similar programmes from the NYSC.
Ibrahim also called on the other Council’s Chairmen in the state to emulate the Chairman and good people of Batagarawa so as to attract NYSC programmes that can benefit their people.
According to him, the programme is one of the initiatives of the current Director-General of NYSC, Brig,-Gen. Yusha’u Ahmed, in discharging its mandate in improving the lives of Nigerians.
The Chairman, Batagarawa LGA, Alhaji Bala Garba-Sani, thanked the NYSC management for choosing his local government area for the programme.
He promised to continue to accommodate as many corps members that would be sent to the local government and take adequate care of them.
The Village Head of Dandagoro, Alhaji Muttaka Magaji, while commending the NYSC officials and the corps members, expressed joy over the gesture. (NAN)
