NAF
NAF Conducts Medical
NAF
NAF Conducts Medical Outreach 8n Host
Communities
In continuation of activities to mark the 55th Anniversary
Celebration of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), 2 NAF Commands
conducted medical outreaches in communities within their Areas of
Responsibility (AORs) yesterday, 26 April 2019. Logistics Command
(LC), with its headquarters in Lagos, conducted a medical outreach
for residents of Lagos Island Community, Iya-Iduganran Isale Eko,
Lagos State, while the Tactical Air Command (TAC) in Makurdi
conducted an outreach for the Basu Angbaye community in Makurdi,
Benue State.
Flagging off the LC outreach, which catered to the medical needs
of close to 300 persons, the Air Officer Commanding (AOC) LC Air
Vice Marshal (AVM) OA Olabisi said the outreach was part of efforts
of the Service to enhance civil-military relations within NAF host
communities and was expected to provide health education and
counseling, laboratory screening, visual acuity checks and free
prescription glasses, dental health services as well as minor
surgeries and free medications to members of the community. In
response, the Oba of Lagos, His Royal Majesty, Oba Rilwan Akiolu,
represented by Chief Obanikoro of Lagos, Adesoji Ajayi Bembe,
thanked the NAF for “such a nice programme in our community”. He
added that the people of Lagos Island would continue to be good
hosts and neighbours to the NAF.
The TAC outreach, which held at the NKST Church Field in Basu
Angbaye community in Makurdi, was flagged-off by the representative
of the AOC TAC, the Commander 161 NAF Hospital Makurdi, Air
Commodore Okey Ezeanyagu, who commended the inhabitants of the area
for turning out enmase for the medical outreach which had about
2,000 people in attendance. He noted that cases requiring further
medical care would be referred to the 161 NAF Hospital for
treatment.
Similar medical outreaches were earlier conducted in the AORs of
NAF units and formations in Kaduna, Enugu, Bauchi, Yenegoa and
Abuja, amongst others, as a way of thanking host communities for
their support to the Service over the years whilst also improving
civil-military relations.
IBIKUNLE DARAMOLA
Air Commodore
Director of Public Relations and Information
Nigerian Air Force