Centre offers free medical care to 600 FCT residents

International Centre for Islamic Culture and Education (ICICE), Sunday, offered free medical services to 600 residents of Karu community, a suburb of the federal capital territory (FCT), Abuja.

The medical outreach, which was held at Karu Central Mosque,was targeted at women, children and men who  were battling with hypertension, diabetes peptic ulcer and malaria diseases.

The director-general of the centre, Dr Kabir Kabo Usman, who said the outreach was carried out in partnership with the Embassy of the Arab Emirates, stated that any patient whose medical condition is critical would be referred to another hospital at the expense of the centre.

Represented by the director of the External relations, research and consultancy at the Centre,  Mallam Garba Sanni, Usman said: “We came here to provide medical support to  Kara community. This is the something we do not only do in Karu community. We have gone around all the communities in the federal capital territory including Dei Dei, Karmo and other places to provide free medical treatments for the people.

“We have a voluntary medical team consisting of the doctors, nurses and as well as other supporting staff for the team. We targeted about 500 or 600 patients here but the demand is a lot more. Over a thousand patients are now demanding free treatment . 

“But our resource is the constrain. As soon as our medication and what we have here are finished today, we will stop. But we had made  provision for the specific number of about 500 to 600 patients to receive free medical treatment today”.

The leader of the medical team, Dr Amina Kumalia, said patients were treated for hypertension, diabetes and peptic ulcer and malaria diseases, adding that patients with critical cases would be referred to another hospitals for further medical care.

One of the patients, Ms Asia Muhammadu Lawal, who said she was treated for hypertension and ulcer diseases, thanked the center for the gesture, saying that the outreach was the first she benefited from in the community.

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