Abuja lawmaker empowers communities with healthcare supplies

A member of the House of Representatives for Abuja South federal Constituency, Hassan Sokodabo, has empowered four area councils with healthcare equipment worth over N39million.

The area councils and communities that benefited from the gesture were: primary healthcare centres in Gawu, Abaji, Tsauni in Gwagwalada, Dabi in Kwali, and Chikuku in Kuje.

Sokodabo, speaking in an interview at one of the centre in Kuje, said that the aim of the project was to provide quality healthcare in rural areas.

He listed beds, generators, fridges, drugs, chairs, among other things, as part of the supplies to the primary healthcare centres in the beneficiary councils.

Sokodabo advised his colleagues at the National Assembly to reach out to the people at the grassroots because they were the ones that put them in their current elected positions.

The Coordinator of the outreach and Consultant, Joshua Adetunji, said that the outreaches that had been taking place since the previous week had witnessed more than 3000 persons turning up for treatment.

Adetunji added that some patients were suffering from malnutrition and they were attended to and given some supplements.

He said that there was a lot to be done in the health sector, especially at the grassroots level, adding that their outreaches had shown clearly the need for the government to put a lot of funds into healthcare services, especially in the rural areas.