The Seyi Tinubu Support initiative on Monday donated N3 million to off set the medical bills of 16 discharged indigent patients at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, (LASUTH), Ikeja.

The Convener of the Initiatives, Mr Moyosore Adebanjo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview on the sidelines of the occasion, that the gesture was part of activities lined up to celebrate the birthday of Mr Seyi Tinubu.

Mr Seyi Tinubu is the son of President Bola Tinubu

According to him, the gesture is to also put smiles on the faces of some indigent Nigerians, in the face of the current economic realities.

“This initiative is in commemoration of the birthday of a very great friend and associate.

“The celebrant is a humanist that have come through for everybody and I think this is the only way we can celebrate him.

“His birthday is Oct. 13 and this is why we have chosen to come to LASUTH, to identify patients who have been discharged but cannot afford to pay the bills and are still in the hospital.

“We are here to present a cheque of N3million to the hospital management, so that these patients can be discharged and reunite with members of their respective families.

“What we are doing here is also being replicated in other parts of the country, by other people and this shows that he has come through for people, irrespective of gender, political affiliation, ethnicity and socio-economic status,” he said.

He added that plans were also on by the group to visit the Kirikiri Correctional Centre, to replicate the same gesture.

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Adebanjo urged Nigerians to support the President Bola Tinubu-led administration, noting that some of the reforms being put in place, would yield results in no distant time.

Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, Chief Medical Director (CMD) of LASUTH, lauded the convener for the kind gesture toward the patients.

Fabamwo felicitated the celebrant and wished him more glorious years ahead.

The CMD recalled that President Tinubu, as a former governor of the state, upgraded the hospital to a tertiary institution, to further intensify and increase the training of medical practitioners and other allied health care professionals.

He said the hospital currently had 200 experts, consultants, surgeons, physicians and various social specialists, to cater for the health needs of Lagos residents and beyond.

One of the beneficiaries, Mrs Serifat Rasak, who had remained in the facility following her inability to cater for her medical bills, commended both the convener and the celebrant for the gesture.

She said that they had given them reasons to smile again and hope for a better future.