Monday, 3 February 2014

N181 MILLION NAIRA SPENT FOR FREE RURAL MEDICAL SERVICE BY KOGI STATE GOVERNMENT

The sum of N181 Million naira has been spent for the three quarters as at December 2013 for the Free Rural Medical Service Programme organized by the
Kogi state government.

The Kogi state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Omede Idris made this while speaking on health care delivery Programme of the state government.
He mentioned that under this Programme, 115 patients were treated free of charge by the medical teams which involves surgical operation, Laboratory services and out patient treatment during the free rural medical service.

According to him, the free rural medical service Programme was designed to offer free medical services to the rural dwellers and those in urban slums that can't afford medical bills.

The Commissioner added that the Programme which was coordinated by the state Ministry of Health has brought relief to medical needs of hundred of thousands of citizens in the state.

He stressed that the focus of government was to make available effective,qualitative, equitable affordable and accessible health care delivery system to the citizens of the state.

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