Lagos Lawmaker Bankrolls Medical Treatments Of 30,000 Constituents

A Lagos lawmaker, Prince Adebisi Yusuff, yesterday bankrolled the surgical operations and medical screenings and treatments of over 30,000 constituents in his 2019 Free Health Mission.
Yusuff, a third-term lawmaker representing Alimosho Constituency I at the Lagos State House of Assembly, carried out the 6th Free Health Mission under his foundation, “Prince Hope Turns to Reality Foundation”.
The lawmaker, who noted that the annual outreach was to mark his birthday, said it was geared toward creating a system that would continually support the most vulnerable in the society to access quality healthcare, better education and improved social well-being.
“I want to continue to provide health assistance to the less privileged in the society because health is wealth.
“I have good health and people gave me their mandate to use for them. It is their mandate. This gesture is just for me to extend the mandate to them.
“I am always marking my birthday on September 26 with this free health mission. Some people will go out to celebrate birthday, but how will I do that, when my people are in agony of various sicknesses.
“So, why don’t I use this period to reflect on what God has done for me and extend the goodness to other people,” Yusuff, a former Ipaja-Ayobo Council boss, said.
According to him, though he receives local and foreign supports for the medical outreach, his family members save money in special bank account annually for the project in millions.
On feedbacks from previous editions, the lawmaker said that the testimonies of many beneficiaries had continued to be inspiration to him.
He said that the mission would last five days beginning from Ipaja-Ayobo Local Council Development Area (LCDA), the permanent venue for all surgeries, to other LCDAs in Alimosho Constituency.
He noted that the outreach would be rotated to Mosan-Okunola, Agbado Oke-Odo, Egbe-Idimu and Alimosho councils.
“I live with the people, I know their problems, I don’t run away from them. I am always with them. We will attend to various types of health issues. We have people for surgical operations and those for normal check up,” he said.