A group of people living with disabilities have commended the International Centre for Islamic Culture and Education (ICICE) for coming to their aid.
Emir of the physically challenged persons in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Alhaji Muhammed Katsina, gave the commendation over the weekend at his palace in Karonmajiji, a suburb of the FCT, when the Islamic centre paid him a courtesy call.
“We are overwhelmed by the kind gesture of the ICICE for providing free medical services to our members and their families. These are the kind of services that we want the government to provide for us. On behalf of the entire community of disabled persons in my domain, we thank the ICICE for their sacrifices and love to our members,” Katsina said.
In a chat with journalists, the Director-General of the ICICE, Dr Kabir Usman, represented by Mallam Garba Sani, director of research, consultancy and external relations, explained that the centre was at the disabled people’s colony at Karonmajiji community to render free medical services as part of its mandate of meeting the health needs of Nigerians.
Usman noted that the community is “largely neglected” by the government.
“We are here to provide free medical services as well as the distribution of food items and clothing to the disabled community of Karonmajiji by the ICICE OF Al-Noor Mosque, Abuja,” he said.
Giving details of the exercise, the leader of the medical outreach team, Dr Amina Kumalia, said most of the patients that were attended to were suffering from malaria and peptic ulcers, adding that hypertension and diabetes were not common.
“They have skin infections, especially children and a few cases of upper respiratory tract infections,” Kumalia disclosed.
