About 1,000 residents of Minna and its environs in Niger state benefitted from the medical outreach organised by the Dawah Institute of Nigeria, a department of the Islamic Education Trust (IET).
The Registrar of the institute, Mallam Muhammad Alhassan, explained that the medical outreach is one of the events lined up for the commemoration of IET at 50.
“We target the less privileged in Minna and its environs who have health challenges and could not afford treatment. We will be carrying out 25 free cataract surgeries in collaboration with Islamic Medical Association of Nigeria (IMAN).
“A hundred pieces of medicated glasses are to be distributed for those with eye problems as well as drugs for hypertension, diabetes, hepatitis, malaria, typhoid and other minor ailments,” he said.
Alhassan said the programme was going on simultaneously in other parts of the metropolis.
The Director General, IET, Alhaji Arzika Abubakar Rimau, said the medical outreach was as old as the organization because they have been rendering medical assistant to people since the establishment of the organization.
A beneficiary, who is also the Chief Imam of Federal University of Technology Minna (FUT Minna), Dr Bashir Ahmad Dankudu, said he got information about the programme through social media and was satisfied with how it was being handled.
“The programme is well organized and I pray they succeed. It shows that some people tend to understand that some people somewhere are in need of help which Islam signifies.
“I would like to advise IET to make it an annual event. Talking about problems of society is not just the solution but coming up with solution to identified problems,” he said.
