Free eye Surgery in Ondo state

 The Government of Dr Olusegun Mimiko carried out free surgical operations on patients suffering from cataract as part of activities commemorating its 100 days in office. 1,200 people benefited from the biggest eye surgeries ever in the State which was tagged: Mega Eye Camp reports.

A cross section of some of the Mega Eye Camp waiting for Governor Olusegun Mimiko to remove the final bandages from their eyes

For 1,200 visually impaired people in Ondo State , would forever be evergreen in their lives as they went home with their sights restored. Of this number, 200 people with cataract in their eyes which had made them blind for years were operated upon free while 1000 people had free corrective eye glasses distributed to them under the Mega Eye Camp of the Dr Olusegun Mimiko’s health scheme. The exercise was carried out to commemorate the first 100 days in office of the Mimiko Administration.

We  thank Mr. Governor for putting Ondo State at the frontline of National Primary Health Care Delivery Programme of Nigeria by this feat.

The Governor while appreciating God for the restoration of his Mandate despite seemingly insurmountable odds, noted that the Mega Eye Camp was a testimony that his administration has taken it upon itself to care for the people of the State

“Our mission, says Dr Mimiko, “which is to mobilize the people of Ondo State to harness all our God-given resources, create and use wealth for the ends of individual happiness, collective fulfillment and peaceful cohabitation in an environment of transparent and honest leadership, cannot be accomplished without a healthy population”.

The governor also enjoined the people of the State to continue to support his administration in its commitment to making the State a place of pride for all.

As the Governor moved round the patients to remove the final bandages from their eyes, the people could not contained themselves, while some knelt down in appreciation, others hugged the Governor, while others simply burst into tears of joy. It was a moving sight indeed.

Our goal is to ensure affordable and qualitative health care for all citizens of Ondo State

Our goal is to ensure affordable and qualitative health care for all citizens of Ondo State. A prompt intervention in the health sector saw Governor Olusegun Mimiko establishing a Mother and Child Hospital within a month in office, an action applauded by International Organizations including World Bank. Apart from decongesting the Akure Specialist \hospital which is already overburdened by inflow of patients, the Mother and Child Hospital with 5 large wards becomes the first of its kind in Nigeria where first class specialized medicare will be available free of charge to the highly vulnerable group-the pregnant women and children, zero age to five inclusive of surgeries where needed.

Exercise and medicine both help depressed heart patients

 People with heart disease who are also depressed may get as much relief from their depression symptoms with regular exercise as with medication .

    Researchers writing in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that of 101 heart patients with signs of depression, those who exercised for 90 minutes per week and those who started taking Zoloft both improved significantly compared to participants assigned to drug-free placebo pills.

Woman keeps baby in freezer for 10yrs

                BERLIN  (AFP) – German prosecutors said Tuesday they had opened a manslaughter investigation against a 49-year-old woman after the corpse of a new-born baby girl was found in her freezer after 10 years.

The grisly find was made by her former husband on Friday when he defrosted the freezer in the house where they used to live, said prosecutors in the northern city of Flensburg.

It was not clear whether the baby was alive or dead when placed in the freezer, investigators said. There were no signs she had been violently treated but authorities confirmed the baby was not stillborn.

The woman, who has not been named, has admitted the baby was hers and said she was “in a state of complete exhaustion and hopelessness” at the time.

The couple already had three, now fully grown, children and divorced in 2009, prosecutors said.

The woman was released pending further investigations.

Source:247nigerianewsupdate