Seyi Tinubu’s Associates Offset Hospital Bills Of Indigent Patients In LASUTH, Others

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From left: Mr. Korede Alade, member, Seyi Tinubu Support Initiative (STSI); Prince Jelili Oyekan, Director, Hospital Administration & Human Resources, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH); Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, Chief Medical Director, LASUTH; Prof. Adebowale Adekoya, Director of Clinical Services, LASUTH; Mrs. Titilope Alaka, Director, Finance & Accounts and Hon. Adebanjo Moyosore, Convener, STSI, during the presentation of cash gift/items to the indigent patients at LASUTH to commemorate Seyi Tinubu’s birthday on Monday

It was a moment of joyous ecstasy as scores of indigent patients enjoyed the magnanimity of some public-spirited Nigerians who had come to pay their medical bills at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday.

The kind gesture was part of activities to commemorate the birthday anniversary of Mr. Seyi Tinubu, the son of the first family by his friends and associates.

Seyi turned 39 on Sunday.

Tinubu’s associates led by Hon. Adebanjo Moyosore presented a cheque of N3 million to the management of LASUTH as a token to help some patients who had accessed medical care at the facility but were financially constrained.

Moyosore, the Convener of the Seyi Tinubu Support Initiative (STSI) and his team were received at the boardroom by Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, the Chief Medical Director at LASUTH along with other members of the top management board including Prof. Adebowale Adekoya, Director of Clinical Services, LASUTH, Mrs. Titilope Alaka, Director, Finance & Accounts, Prince Jelili Oyekan, Director, Hospital Administration & Human Resources, LASUTH, to mention just a few.

Justifying the need for the philanthropic gestures, Moyosore said it was their modest way of honouring the celebrator on the occasion of his birthday.

“Seyi Tinubu is a core humanist and I can tell you there are so many people across the country who are beneficiaries of his largesse even before he attained his current status. He has come through for so many of us. And of course, you can’t give him money.

The only thing you can do is to make him happy and compliment his effort and the effort of his father, who is the president of this country, in making sure that truly and really downtrodden people, who do not have these supplies, are impacted and affected one way or the other, “Moyosore said.

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Expatiating, he said: “Yes, I know what we are doing is a drop of water in an ocean. But the reality of the fact is that one or two people are impacted. We are providing these to homes and families and simultaneously, the same initiative is going on across the country by one person or the other that I am aware of. And of course, the celebrant is aware of this. We just want to give our token to the hospital community to support these patients in settling their bills.”

While responding on behalf of the hospital management, Prof. Fabamwo, who thanked the celebrator and his associates for the good gestures, emphasised that LASUTH boosts the best of Medicare across the country all thanks to the support of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and especially President Bola Tinubu, who he said found the hospital during his tenure as governor in the late 1990s.

“As we speak, we are one of the fully functional national health centres. We are a one-stop shop for all kinds of issues that have to do with advanced medical care. The message we would like you to take away is the message of health insurance. We would like you to take it to the grassroots. Health insurance is the future of medical funding.”

Out-of-pocket payment for medical treatment, Fabamwo stressed, “is fast going out of fashion, majorly because of the scarcity of funds and because of the rapidly increasing cost of medications and medical care. So it’s quite more economical for people to take up health insurance and then have access to medical care. As we speak, there are two major insurance plans. There’s the National Health Insurance Scheme and there’s also the Lagos State Insurance Scheme.”

One of the beneficiaries, Mrs Sherifat Razaq, who said she had recently delivered a baby girl at the facility, was effusive with praises for the kind gestures, even as she prayed for God’s protection and blessings for her benefactors.

The highlight of the occasion was the presentation of the cheque and cutting of the birthday cake with Moyosore in the company of some of his team.

Source: The Nation

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