No less than 250,000 persons would again benefit from the 4th edition of BOSKOH Free Medical Outreach in Lagos, as the programme was on Thursday launched for residents of the state to benefit. The 3rd edition had recorded the healthcare outreach attending to 250,000 persons. The 4th Edition of BOSKOH Free Medical Outreach tagged: 'Jigi-Bola…
The Jigi-Bola Health Mission, was launched during the Administration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as a free sight and hearing aid programme of the Lagos State government in 2001. At a joint event of the re-launch of JIGI-BOLA health programme and the unveiling of the 4th BOSKOH HMI free medical outreach, on Thursday, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the 4th Edition, BOSKOH Health Mission Initiative has made enough provision to carry out routine screening exercise on the residents across the 20 LGAs and 37 LCDAs of the State.
According to Sanwo-Olu, considering the status of Lagos as a megacity with its “ever increasing population, the BOSKOH Health Mission Initiative targeted and identified 250,000 residents in need of visual and hearing aids at the third edition of the Jigi-Bola Re-launch and BOSKOH Health Mission Initiative held last year.”
Sanwo-Olu who quoted the World Health Organisation , assertion that over two billion people have a near or distant visual impairment, and at least, over One Billion or almost half of these cases could have been preventable, noted that for Nigeria, according to International Centre for Eye Health, it is estimated that over 2.7 million adults aged between 40 years and above have moderate visual impairment, and additional 400,000 adults are severely, visually impaired.
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