By Abimbola Ogunnaike
The event hall of Igando-Ikotun Local Council Development Area (LCDA) was full to the brim on Saturday, 2 August, 2025.
Residents of the state, both far and near, gathered there to benefit from a free health outreach programme that was organised by Kami Empowerment Foundation, a governmental organisation reports thegazellenews.com.
The health mission was declared opened by the Executive Chairman of Igando-Ikotun Local Council Development Area, Senior Comrade Lasisi Ayinde Akinsanya.
The council Chairman expressed gratitude to the executive members of the Foundation, the medical team, and participants for their support and attendance.
“This is a very commendable programme, very beneficial to the residents and I’m grateful to the organisers and the medical team for this laudable programme,” Senior Comrade Akinsanya said.
The free health outreach tagged “Free Bi-annual Kami Health Fair Mission” was part of the activities to mark 13th Anniversary of Kami Empowerment Foundation.
Consultants from federal, state, and local medical centers were on ground to attend to people with various health challenges during the health outreach programme.
Health checks such as diabetes, blood pressure, cervical cancer screening, prostate cancer screening, HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis, malaria, ear, nose, and throat (ENT), breast check, arthritis, stroke screening, mental health talk, free eye screening, medication, and glasses, free counseling session, among others were available for people.
Speaking at the programme, the founder of the Kami Foundation, Ambassador Motunrayo Mariam Williams-Johnson said the programme was organised to help the less privilege ones in the society who are hindered by finances to go to hospitals for medical check-ups.
“This is part of our own little way of helping the less privilege ones in our society who can’t afford to go to hospital to know their health conditions as a result of lack of money to do so.
“This programme is therefore meant for you and you need to make good use of the this exercise by lodging your health complains to the expert heath officials present here.
“Your good health is our paramount concern and that is why we have been organizing this free health programme for the past 13 years and we are very proud that we have torched the lives of thousands of people health wise.
“We are happy that a lot of people who have benefited from our programme they have not stop thanking us for what we are doing in the area of health to the less privilege ones in our society.
“Commendations from them have encouraged us to do more for the society and that is why you are seeing us in action again today doing what we love to give back to the society. We will not stop doing this, it is part of social responsibility which this foundation holds in high esteem,” Mariam Williams-Johnson said.
She stated further that, “special recognition goes to Hamzadaz Physiotherapy, led by Medical Director Dr. Adebiyi Hamzat, for their generous free medical support, ointment for massaging, including health talks and a week’s worth of treatment for physiotherapy cases.
“Mental health talks and counseling sessions were delivered by nurses from the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, alongside our other medical services, including Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) services supported by a nurse from Alimosho General Hospital, which attended to nearly 70 individuals”.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with thegazellenews.com, the President of the Foundation, Alhaja Rasidat Adunola Malomo said the free health programme has achieved a lot in the last 13 years of its operation health wise.
“There is popular saying that good heath is wealth. Thus, this free health care to the people is very important. That is why we have taken it upon our ourselves to be doing this every year. We have achieved through the programme many have been treated, given medical assistance and given referral where needed,” she said.
Some of the beneficiaries who spoke with thegazellenews.com expressed gratitude to the Foundation for putting the programme in place.
Solabomi Babadiya said, “the free health which the foundation put in place for us is a very big relief to us. A lot of people cannot afford to go to hospitals for medical check-ups because they cannot afford it. But giving us these free check-ups without money is very commendable. May God continue to be with the founder of the foundation and their staff for this wonderful exercise”
Serifat Adelaja on her part said the foundation has done a fantastic job by putting in place the free health programme.
“This is better than giving us money. I want to use this opportunity to thank founder of the programme for a job well done. She has been doing a fantastic job. She has torched thousands of lives by organizing this programme on yearly basis. God Almighty will bless her and her entire household. That is what only we can do for her to appreciate what she has been doing for the less privilege ones in the society,” Adelaja said.
