The wife of the Ogun State Governor, Mrs. Bamidele Abiodun has appealed to all Nigerians to always take note of changes happening in their bodies, to prevent life threatening diseases.
Mrs Abiodun, who gave the advice during a medical mission, organised by the office of the Governor’s wife and her pet project, Ajose Foundation,where surgeries were performed on life threatening ailments, said the appeal is necessary for early medical intervention.
“A lot of times, it always comes late when people seek medical intervention. We are doing a lot on cancer, which is so important, especially to people living in the rural areas. For instance, there was a lady who had bruises on her legs and didn’t know what it was. She believes it was mere wounds, and kept on treating it until it started expanding. By the time we eventually find out about it, she was already on stage four cancer.
“If she had known the importance of seeking medical intervention as quickly as she noticed the changes, she wouldn’t have ended up as such. I think that is the case in many of the rural areas; people don’t observe changes in their bodies to seek medical interventions on time
“We are grateful to our partners who volunteered, spent their personal money to travel down to the country. It wasn’t only Nigerians doctors that we had; we also had foreign doctors who attended to our people. The kind of reception they received gave them the willingness to come back in six months .”
During the seven-day medical mission, held in partnership with a team of medical doctors from the United States of America, over 120 residents of Sagamu, Ilisan and Aiyepe, benefitted from free surgeries relating to pancreas, liver, thyroid and others.
