Annual General Meeting: Osun NMA Donates Relief Materials To Prison Inmates

By Ayobami Agboola, Osogbo

As part of the activities making this year Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference, the Nigeria Medical Association, Osun state chapter, on Monday, donated some relief items to the inmates at Ilesa Correctional Centre.

NMA, during its visitation of Hope to the correctional centre organised health talk for the inmates on how they can maintain good health.

CityMirrorNews reports that some of the items distributed to the inmates include rice, beans, noodles , spaghetti, tubers of yam, drugs, reading glasses among other relief materials.

Presenting the items to official of Ilesa Correctional prison service in Ilesa, the state NMA Vice chairman, Dr. Fasanu Adeniyi, who led other members of the association said they doled out the gift items as part of their own contribution to the welfare of the inmates and to ensure the inmates are well taken care of.

Dr. Adeniyi noted that the gesture was based on the association’s policy to visit hard to reach communities with free medical attendance and other logistics particularly poor people and helpless to reduce the level of socioeconomic hardship they were encountering.

According to him, the association is willing to partner with all the relevant agencies, group, and individuals as well as community-based organisation in the state in the eradication of suffering among inmates at all levels of the economy.

“We brought them some food items and medical items like drugs to ensure their welfare is well taken care of.

“We are here to contribute our own quota; to give them health talks, to identify what their major health challenges are because we still intend to come back again and by then we will be able to attend to their health,” he said

Giving the Health Talk, NMA General Secretary, Dr Amuda Adeyemi and Dr. Adebayo Modupe, educated the inmates on health hygiene just as they urged them to take good care of their health.

While giving them the word of hope, Dr. Adeyeye told them they should have faith in God, and show love to one another.

He stressed the need for them to forget their worries or whatever brought them to prison, praying that God will deliver them.

Receiving the items, an official of the Correctional Centre, commended the state branch of NMA for their concerned to prison inmates, saying the centre was ready to cooperate with every stakeholder in the state to improve the living standards of the inmates