AIICO Insurance partner foundation on free eye surgery

As part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR), an underwriting firm, AIICO Insurance Plc and Indo-Eye Care Foundation, have conducted free eye surgery for 2,000 residents of Lagos.

Since 2007, the foundation has made it an yearly event to conduct between 2,000 and 2,500 free eye surgeries for people and has done similar figures in the current year.

Speaking at the 2022 Sharad Purnima Dandiya event in Lagos, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of AIICO Insurance, Babatunde Fajemirokun, said, the underwriter offered to assist the less privileged to regain their sight through the support it gave to Indo-Eye Care Foundation.

Fajemirokun, who was represented by the communication manager of AIICO Insurance, Ademola Adenekan, said the gesture was part of the company’s CSR to the communities and humanity, promising that the firm will continue to assist the less privileged through similar initiatives. He said the management of the underwriting firm was happy that through its gesture, more blind people could regain their sight.

The President of the Gujarati Samaj, Tanna Shailesh, disclosed that through the Indo-Eye Care Foundation, doctors from India have been able to perform 25,000 eye surgeries at the Marina General Hospital as at 2021.