By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz
Yola
A Yola-based private health organisation, Global Health Care, has commenced free medical care for media practitioners and other less privileged with eye problems in Adamawa state.
Speaking on the exercise in Yola, the state capital, a member of the team, Dr Muazu Abubakar, said the gesture was in appreciation of the role of the media and part of the organisation’s efforts in assisting the less privileged in the society.
Abubakar said the organisation had been engaged in such humanitarian assistance to the needy in the state.
“We do render such services to the needy and sometimes some philanthropists do sponsor the organisation to attend to patients in their communities,” Muazu said.
He used the opportunity to call on politicians to patronise the organisation by sponsoring treatment for victims in their constituency.
Speaking at the occasion, the chairman of the Correspondents Chapel of the NUJ, Umar Dankano, commended the organisation for the gesture and urged journalists in the state to avail themselves of the opportunity to check their eyes.
He prevailed on the need for other nongovernmental organisations to emulate Global Health Care by assisting humanity, stressing that “gone are the days, when government will provide all human needs; others have to play their roles in assisting the common man through community projects.”
“I wish to call on others to emulate the Global Health Care.”
