OBF OFFERS MEDICAL SUPPORT FOR STRANDED PATIENTS
OLUSEYI BISIRIYU FOUNDATION OFFERS MEDICAL SUPPORT FOR STRANDED PATIENTS, PAYS DISCHARGED BILL
In its mission to continuously assist the poor and vulnerables thay could not afford the payment of their hospital bills; a charity organization known as Oluseyi Bisiriyu Foundation recently visited the State General Hospital at Ijaye, Abeokuta , the Capital City of Ogun State.
The Foundation team on their arrival to the Hospital were warmly welcomed by the Head of Department, Nursing Unit. Mrs. Oluremi Monsuro, alongside other staff of the hospital.
The hospital team thanked the Foundation for its humanitarian intervention and assistance to patients who were in serious urgent needs to pay for their drugs and hospital bills.
The Foundation led by the Programme Officer , Engr. Emmanuel Ojo Enitan were later conducted round the wards to see the patients.
Among those who benefited from the financial medical assistance were those who are still receiving treatment at the ward and those who are supposed to have been discharged but could not afford the payment of the Hospital bill.
While Blessing Godstime received immediate discharge after the Foundation magnanimously cleared off her payment, it was a different case for Tobiloba Akinbode who surfers from Birth Asphyxia, a medical condition resulting from deprivation of oxygen to new born infant that last long enough through the birth process to cause physical harm.
Tobiloba was in a critical condition that the Foundation had to pay all expenses till the last day of her discharged.
Mr. Kehinde Ademuyiwa the Public Relations Officer of the Foundation however assured the management of the Hospital that the Foundation shall continue to give necessary assistance to the hospital in carrying out health service delivery to indigents and vulnerable patients who could not afford the cost of their treatments. He thanked the Hospital management for their cooperation while appreciating the state government for its roles in management and control of Covid 19 in the state.
It will be recalled that the Foundation had also offered financial and medical support to some Ogun state dwellers who suffered from breast cancer and other sicknesses.
Prior to the commencement of this medical assistant program by the Foundation, the Foundation team visited the Medical Director of the Ogun State hospital Dr. Oladeinde to find out the needs of the Hospital and some of the patients who are in critical situation and in need of urgent intervention and assistance.
The medical director lauds the Foundation for such interest in helping the poor, giving life to many and raising their hope, while elucidating on the areas where the foundation could be of assistance to the hospital.